All hail the Hallows

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2010)

This was the most bizarre dichotomy I've ever witnessed on screen: On the one hand this was a wonderful sweeping narrative of our well loved friends latest adventures, characters and actors we've grown up with over the last decade. On the other hand it's an almost incomprehensible story of camping, wonderful scenery, lots of snow, some head-scratching at just why Harry is the chosen one (when it would appear Hermione is better at everything,always was and probably will be!), and did I mention the incomprehensible story!
So what was so wrong with the story - just such a complete lack of explanation ,who were the Snatchers ,who were they snatching and why did Harry and friends run from them,surely they were more far more powerful than 6 lackeys working for "I presume" The ministry. Why did Harry hide in broad daylight in the Dursley home at the start, furthermore why did he hide in broad daylight at the wedding.
More alarming was the time-line in the endless meanderings from campsite to campsite in some of the most spectacular scenery ever seen on screen, Ginny was seen when Harry camped out next to lake Tanganika or somewhere going back to Hogwarts for the new term: A it was supposed to be 1 or 2 days before Christmas , B she was a Weasley why hadn't she been "snatched" and C just how many pupils were at Hogwarts anyway without Mugbloods ,Halfbloods, and kids of good Wizards, bizarre!?
Also is just me or did not seem that the Elf Dobby seemed more powerful than any wizard he caught Mundungus in a nanosecond without knowing anyone was looking for him, had the second sight to appear in the basement to save the day "unbelievable" ,this man could save the world debt in 5 minutes never mind defeat the lord of darkness, What a guy!!
Also on the subject of Voldemort did someone not miss a trick when we first saw his true self 5 episodes ago, if he'd remained a shadowy figure instead of the non-scary third class Freddy Krueger then his unmasking at the end of this film especially as a prelude to the final chapter would have been genius.
Anyway as you'll notice from above I gave this a 10 , you're probably wondering why. At the end of the day if anything I believe the film is actually too short to explain fully all the intricacies of the storyline, but in the world we live in today 3 and half hours would have been lambasted by 80 percent of the viewers, maybe this will force more people to read the book or at least half of it as a precursor to the last thrilling instalment.
What I really liked was the film within a film "the story of the Deathly Hallows" pure genius! The characters as usual were brilliant, the acting wonderful especially Helena Bonham Carter who makes Cruella De Vil look like Annie - she is Evil incarnate, smashing. I happened to like the interaction between Harry,Hermione and Ron on there forty days in the desert adventure.
There was horror and humour and I defy anyone not to cry 10 minutes from the end. All in all I loved it and I hope you will too , maybe the shortcomings in the Narrative will make you think and fill in the blanks yourself ,sometimes life should be that way!!