Spoilers. This is not a film for kids; I'm not sure who it's for.

Rating: 4/10 (23 November 2016)

SPOILERS HERE: I'm a "young 73", and saw this movie with a lady friend. I'm not sure what this film was, or who it's for. It's from a book by J.K. Rowling, but it sure isn't Harry Potter, and it sure isn't for kids. There is a "witchy" young girl who walks around mouthing silly chants. There is a "disturbed young man" with a bad haircut, who is apparently a child molester? There is an overlong noisy destruction of a fantasy old New York City. There a two female characters whom I couldn't tell apart, and Katherine Waterston's is one of them. Eddie Redmayne does a lot of looking up in wonderment, and there are plenty of people around with magical powers and wands. Colin Farrell's character, "Graves" leaves us wondering whether he's good or bad. Same for the female leader of the city. For me, the two brightest characters in the film were Dan Fogler's "Kowalski" and the woman who became his girlfriend. I'm not sure who played her. But who is this movie for? It starts very slowly, and though action builds, there are young characters in it that only grownups can understand, sort of. How very nice that massive destruction done to the city can be magically reconstructed. I won't be going to the sequel.