Clearly with all these good reviews NOBODY read the books!

Rating: 3/10 (20 November 2010)

I'll start by saying i love the books and I'm impartial to the movies, but i thought this one would be different. Seeing as how they split it in to two parts i thought that would allow them to stay detailed and true to the book, this was not the case at all. Okay, so we all know that movies are never as good as the books that they are based on mainly because they tend to leave out the small details, but this movie completely betrayed the book. They missed so many plot forming concepts that the story seemed almost patched together, making many things forced upon the viewer in the form of awkwardly place bad script. I'll begin with my list of a few of the many things that they screwed up.
1:The Taboo on Voldemort's name was never mentioned, which was the entire reason that they were followed by death eaters at the Cafe and more importantly it was the reason they were captured by the Snatchers, so... wtf? 2:The Invisibility Cloak was completely missing from the movie, and in the book that's the only reason that they believe that the Hallows exist, and seeing how the title is the Deathly Hallows, you think that would be a little more important.
3:An extremely important part in the book is in the beginning when Voldemort attacks Harry as they are leaving the Dursley's and Harry's wand acts on its own accord. They did a TERRIBLE job with that scene in the movie not showing it as the wand's action at all 4:Also from the beginning, Harry and Hagrid were supposed to almost die in the crash, instead they have a nice smooth landing at the burrow, when they were actually supposed to crash at Ted Tonk's.
5: Krum is never in the movie to explain the symbol of the Hallows, and they magically (no pun intended) figure it out.
6: Wormtail didn't even die, really? how hard would that have been to just throw in there real quick? 7: they tried to make a hint towards a romantic relationship between Harry and Hermione which never happens in the book, except for maybe when Ron is Trying to Destroy the locket and Riddle's spirit shows Ron's fears 8:When Harry sees into Voldemort's mind its split second clips inside a dream, in the book they are vivid and complete visions of Voldemort's actions allowing you to know what was going on without one of the characters just stating it.
I know there's a lot of things that i'm forgetting, not to mention all the small mistakes. This is the first movie in a long time that i was debating leaving the theater. But all of that aside, the movie itself was pretty poorly scripted at times (probably as a result of them leaving so much out) the visual aspect of the movie was good, but these days with a budget like that you can do anything. For those that haven't read the books i guess you won't be as upset as i was but its still a slow storyline sure to bore. THIS WAS AN ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE MOVIE THAT DIDN'T COME CLOSE TO DOING JUSTICE TO THE BOOK, do yourself a favor and skip going to see this one.