Just as good as the Harry Potter movies. Well worth a watch

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2017)

Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler and Colin Farell
Overall: This movie is actually surprising good and hold it own with the magical Harry Potter movies. It still contains the magic and yet delivers something new.
Good:
1. The visual effects in the movie are astounding and amazing and just awesome to behold.
2. All the acting was superb from Eddie Redmayne to Dan Fogler to Colin Farell to Katherine Waterson.
3. Pretty decent cinematography
4. Newt was a very interesting protagonist and you can't help but like him.
5. Porpentina Goldstein was an interesting love interest to Newt as was Queenie Goldstein as her sister.
6. Jacob Kowalski was a fun comic relief and made me laugh a few times. He was also responsible for quite a moving scene.
7. Ezra Miller was good as Credence and you really felt sorry for him. He was tormented and beaten and this really shone through the acting and writing.
8. Percival Graves was a cool and conniving villain.
9. It didn't rely on the success of Harry Potter and made an actual movie. It had new and interesting concepts.
10. An interesting and well written story.
Bad:
1. I didn't like the resolution to the final problems of the movie and it just felt lazy and cheap.
2. The repair spell is 100% stupid and I really don't like how it was a crutch for a lot in the movie.
3. Queenie Goldstein had an ability to read minds which seems cool and could be interesting but was just used as a means to continue the plot.
4. It was so painfully obvious of who the actual villain was and the 'subtle foreshadowing' should have been heavily toned down.
8/10