It's ok, but give me any HP film over this any time. This uses the magic much more frequently, but the real magic of the HP world is not here anymore, everything seems a bit fake, trying too much.

I guess this can work better who never heard about Hoghwarts before. There are some crime elements and some prejudices and parallelisms with racial elements - curiously in a cast not diverse at all - that can make this an interesting journey. The actors try a lot and most people the visuals are pretty god, I just felt the scrip was messy, with no idea about where it would land. Oh, and btw, we don't always need 15 minutes after the real ending of a film.