The first part of the final Harry Potter movie.

Rating: 4/10 (23 July 2011)

I have now watched this movie twice, not because I enjoyed it the first time but rather to refresh my memory before I go and watch the last movie with my brother. My brother loves Harry Potter but I am not a big fan, and personally this movie seems to lack consistency. Okay, I have seen other shows which seem to wrap everything up quite quickly, and I am sure Rowlings does the same with her books (and unlike some writers, she did restrain herself to seven books, though the books do progressively get longer).
The first thing that irritated me about this book is that it starts as a children's story and progressively moves to more adult themes, however the names remain childish names (such as Hogwarts and Dumbledore) and that does not really fit in such a dark story (as it turns out to be). Secondly the movie begins with Harry searching for the six remaining horecrux's, but only finds one, and then suddenly has to go and find another three powerful magical items. One wonders if he simply abandons his quest of the horecrux's (though I guess I will find out soon enough). Further, much of the movie ends up with him finding a way to destroy the one horecrux he has, but seems to jump from dead end to dead end. In the end, though, this movie just turns out to be one big dead end.
No, I'm not a big Harry Potter fan. I have seen the movies, and read one of the books, but I think I'll just leave it at that. There are much more interesting books out there that I would like to read.