Decent.

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2019)

A decent Harry Potter movie that started strong but ultimately long winded and a tendency to drag on. Perhaps because this is the buildup to part 2, part 1 is a bit slow. But throughout the movie I found myself glancing away at times, not interested in the temporary teenage drama which seemingly is a recurring theme in all later Harry Potter movies, Harry, Hermione and Ron all run away from the group at one point in time, this movie no different.
Secondly I found the directing a bit messy with odd cuts and extremely shaky and zoomed in shots during actons scenes, particularly during the forest snatcher scene. Also during the first escape scene where Harry meets Voldemort for like 5 seconds and boom its over, next scene, they were almost instantly both using their wands playing ''tug of war''.
Thirdly there were some weird character inserts imo, Dobby felt forced in out of nowhere and *spoiler* let off in the finale just to give the movie some stakes.
So in general I still enjoyed it, especially the start, but sadly it did tend to drag on, most likely because its the build up but alas, its still a standalone movie.