This movie is a mess right from the beginning. The first scene involves Grindelwalds escape, and I had no idea what the hell was happening during it. It was dark and raining, there were annoying flashes of thunder and above all the editing was headache inducing. There were so many quick cuts that it was near impossible to keep track of what was going on. Not the greatest of starts...

By far the biggest flaw of this film is its script. The story is unnecessarily complicated. Its so complicated that we are required to watch minutes and minutes and minutes of boring exposition. And the weird part is that the exposition didn't even feel important to the overall story. There are twists in this movie that don't make any sense and are only there to shock the audience. The dialogue is atrocious at times. Characters are talking out loud when they're alone, just so the audience or other characters eavesdropping can hear them. And another weird thing is that apparently everybody in this franchise is related to one another. Seriously, there's so many 'they are actually family!'-twists. But wait, there's more!

Newly introduced characters are unnecessary and forgettable (Nicolas Flamel shows up and does absolutely nothing. He's just there to be a reference to the original movies, especially with them showing the Philosopher's Stone for no reason. Same thing with Nagini). I already had some problems with the non-existent chemistry between Newt and Tina in the first film, and there's still zero chemistry between them in this movie. Other characters make weird choices just so that there's some conflict going on that we're supposed to care about. I did like the comedic relief in Jacob. He's genuinely funny at times. Jude Law did a convincing job as Dumbledore. Not a fan of Depp as Grindelwald though. He's just... Depp in disguise.

There is a lot more to say about this movie, but that would require me to go into spoilers. Unfortunately I can not recommend this movie. Its just a complicated, uninteresting mess.