Good movie but has several minuses

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2016)

Harry Potter movie series' legacy continues with "Fantastic Beast". Many reviewers commented the film as a masterpiece and others seems to be highly disappointed. Well, I liked the film however we can not deny that there were some feeble parts in the movie. To rate a movie, we all have to go through all criterias. I will be evaluating the quality of Fantastic Beasts with these criterias (each 2.5 points): -Story and setting -Characters and acting -Visuality and soundtracks -Expression of emotions 1)Story and Setting => 1.5 p First of all, to those who compares the stories of both movies, comparison shouldn't have an effect on the rate since there are 8 HP films to compare FB and even 8 films are different to each other. The first part of FB is really complicated, bouncing to the events that have unknown reasons to occur (-0.25). Next one is that Credence's growing importance. Newt Scamander and his fellow friends spent so many hours to recapture his beasts while not paying attention to the important situation of Credence until the end of the movie.This leads to a mess in the story. Introduction and catch of the beasts is approached more than the main plot, assuming that it will raise the excitement scale of the audience (-0.5). Another illogical fact is that the failed execution of Scamander and Goldstein. I consider it as a harsh punishment and do not know if Mrs. President permitted that action(-0.25). There was not a specific duel part but remembering old classic HP spells to be casted felt good and also second part of the film had more appropriate mobility. 2) Characters and Acting =>1,5 p Starting with the soulless demeanor of Eddie Redwayne is kinda expected. The protagonist's lack of expression is one of the definite minuses for this movie. Looking cute ,unharmed and extremely calm in all kind of situations is really odd (-0.5). Katherine Waterson had lack of expressions too but not same scale as Eddie's (-0.25). The other actors especially Dan Fogler played their role very well. The relationship between Goldstein and Scamander was immature in the beginning and it lasted to the end of the film. Their goodbye part was absolutely strange and not played professionally (-0.25). 3) Visuality and Soundtracks => 2 p Do I have to talk about visuality? It was amazing, the spells, the beasts... Since we live in 2016, we of course expect all films to express visualization perfectly. About soundtracks, they were generally good but I expect more than that level especially in the most exciting part of the movie (-0.5). 4) Expressing Emotions =>2 p Although I mentioned some individual (Redmayne) inadequacy of emotions, we will evaluate every part of the movie that give us a clue about an emotion. Let's start with the humor sense. Kowalski and Queenie nearly fills all the humor part. They didn't have an impact on the excitement as expected. All active scenes such as recapturing beasts, short duels and the case of Credence, complete the excitement emotion. They couldn't achieve a durable balance of emotions, allowing the emotions change fastly (-0.5). ------------------------------------- I hope this criteria system is more understandable. Total point/rate is 7, I wish I could give this movie a higher rate but we shouldn't ignore the errors, right? ------------------------------------- In conclusion, even though there were some illogical minuses, the structure of the movie was great and I personally went to the past due to FB's resemblance to HP.