(No Spoilers) The Fantastic Beasts Sequel is a Set Up Movie. This doesn't make it bad, but it's certainly not a good movie either. The Technical aspects of the movie are of course great. The effects (even though I thought they were overused at times) were really good for the most part. The cinematography, sound, sets, costumes, and editing, everything is good. The Actors all do a great job again. My favorite parts of the movie were definitely Johnny Depp's Grindelwald, and Jude Law's Dumbledore. Dumbeldore was surprisingly underused though. Grindelwald had a great set up, where it's said he's very manipulative, and can almost control people, and this could've been a very interesting part of his character, but it's never really shown enough. I did really like Grindelwald though. He was definitely my favorite part of the film. This movie just doesn't feel like a fantastic beasts movie. What I mean by this is that this isn't a story about Newt, or the beasts anymore. There's basically no plot, the movie is all over the place. The only plot I could think of is Grindelwald trying to get Credence to join him, and Credence trying to figure out who he is. The movie is really setting up for the finale and for the next films. A lot of scenes in the first 2 acts just felt unnecessary, and boring. A lot of it is just filler, and too focused on Harry Potter fan service. It was really choppy, going from character to character. Honestly I had a hard time following it, and I was confused in some moments. It's just not focused. An example of this is Voldemort's snake, Nagini, who's a character in this film. She doesn't really do much, she's just there. A lot of the moments just should've been resolved quicker. They just dragged on for too long, and it made the movie somewhat slow and boring. There's a bunch of scenes that contribute nothing to the plot, or not even character development, which should've been entirely cut. There's also barely any character development for the most of the main characters. They are the same since the beginning to the end of the film. Characters just feel shoved into the movie, and it just isn't interesting. The third act was actually good though, and it's when the movie finally picks up. This is when everything finally starts to get revealed, with some very good twists and revelations, and it finally becomes entertaining. There's some actual dark moments, and the final twist was really shocking. I'm not sure if it makes sense in the overall universe though. Make sure to not get it spoiled because it will probably ruin the movie. I just really enjoyed what they did in the third act, and it was just genuinely shocking, even though it's just left up in the air for the sequel. That's really the biggest problem for the movie. Even though the third act was good, the rest of the film is filled with filler, unnecessary fan service, that just made it boring. Also I thought some of the characters motivations didn't make sense at the end of the film. Like I said before Grindelwald is supposed to be able to control or manipulate people, so that's what I'm assuming happened, but if so it's lazy, and just wasn't shown well. Some other nitpicks I had with the film are characters like Newt, Grindelwald, and Credence who are supposed to be found, but are just going out in public almost like If nothing happened, nobody notices them. Overall this movie was boring for the first 2 acts, the third act was much better, but not enough to save the movie. This is definitely the weakest entry in the Wizarding World, but it isn't bad, It's just okay. 5.5/10