Absolutely dreadful - If you love the books, don't watch it

Rating: 2/10 (20 October 2011)

This final Harry Potter movie might be one of the worst films in years. But only if you've read the books. If you didn't read the books, it's nice and entertaining. The acting is quite good and the special effects are amazing. If you did read the books, it's absolutely dreadful.
I consider myself to be a Harry Potter fan. I just love the books, I've read them all a couple of times. Especially the last one "The Deadly Hallows" is one of the best books I've read, even though this is a children's book. The whole story comes together beautifully.
But in this movie, The Deadly Hallows Part 2, the magic that the book offers is completely absent. In the first movies, some of the details were a little bit different from the books. It annoyed me, but I could understand it. It made the movies more watchable and you can't get every detail from a book into a movie can you? But here! Not only a few details are different, everything is different! I would expect a few scenes to be faster or more dramatic, but there are whole parts of the movie that are nowhere to be found in the books. I simply can't understand why they've changed so much. I wonder if I've read a different version of the book than the directors. They just made up whole new scenes.
Imagine Frodo in Lord of the Rings not dropping the ring into a volcano of lava but in one of tar. Imagine everyone but Frodo sailing away in to the west in the end. That would make the whole thing kinda different right?
Why is the whole school called in front of Snape, while the key figures are supposed to be hiding in the room of requirement? Why does Harry just reveal himself to Snape instead of in a classroom with the Carrows? Why doesn't Harry reveal himself to be still alive once Mrs Weasley has killed Bellatrix Lestrange? But no, he's already running around and fighting with Voldemort. And why does Voldemort go up in smoke once killed?
This is all wrong. I give the movie a 2 for effort. If you like the books, don't watch this movie, it might ruin the story you love.