The darkest, most emotionally powerful harry potter movie to date.

Rating: 9/10 (23 November 2010)

These past 3 years with David Yates has been a roller-coaster ride. He's had his high moments, and then most of the time he's had his low moments. OTP was a decent movie, HBP was more of a romantic comedy than a harry potter movie, but with the deathly hallows part 1 Yates hits the nail straight on the head and brings in the emotion and story that the last two have been missing.
The first 20 minutes for me were the most emotionally powerful. they showed how each of our three heroes are risking it all to save the world from voldemort's clutches. some say that the beginning dragged a little bit. but i thought it was perfectly paced. even though some spots were a little rushed, for example, the wedding sequence, but that was just to save time for the huge middle section of this epic movie. now the middle had some of my favorite scenes in the movie even though there wasn't that much wand waving involved, and it also provided some of the best performances of the movie. one scene in particular was the Hermione and harry dancing sequence, even though it wasn't in the book it was an absolute breath of fresh air and happiness in this other wise dark and foreboding world. godrics hollow was very well done and so was dobby's death.
All in all harry potter and the deathly hallows is not only yates' best movie to date, but it is the most emotionally powerful of all of the potter films