Utter Gibberish.

Rating: 2/10 (5 August 2011)

This movie was so low on my expectations, and it did not disappoint. From the last few movies of Harry Potter that have come out, being an avid reader of the books, I've absolutely loathed the way they've been commercialized for the box office, ignoring a lot of the story that made the story so very emotional. Yes, when I say that, I mean FOR the box office. Yates probably knew he had messed up the series and thought he might as well earn a few bucks and make this an utter fiasco instead of using its plot to live up to the potential it had for an Oscar.
Spoiler alert: This movie had so many moments where people go out of character I don't even know where to begin, but I'll try. I'm actually finding it really hard to understand how people have missed it. I'll point out a few instances, they're not in sequence of events, they're just what comes to mind spontaneously:

During Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort's epic battle, at a time when Voldemort is ARMED WITH A WAND, instead of targeting the killing curse at Harry, he KICKS HIM AROUND ON THE FLOOR. What is this? Alcoholic husband goes on rampage? THIS is HARRY POTTER people. The world of MAGIC. These things DO NOT happen, sorry Yates.

As part of the same scene, Harry throws out a one-liner at Voldy and grabs him by the head and jumps off what appears to be some like of a terrace in Hogwarts, pummeling them in to a fall which appears to be about 15 seconds long, and they just shrug off the dirt from the ground and start crawling toward their wands, unharmed.

McGonnagall throws out a couple of one-liners that are totally out of character when she asks Filch to escort Slytherin house to the dungeons and another when she casts that Locomotor spell and says she's always wanted to use it.

The oh so timid Neville also comes up with a stupidly placed heroic speech when Voldemort brings Harry's body forward and asks people to join him.

Don't even get me STARTED at the part when LORD VOLEMORT *HUGS* Draco Malfoy. Since when does the Dark Lord HUG people?

On a lighter note, when Harry returns to school, Seamus throws out a one-liner at Ron when Ginny sees Harry.

Those were probably the more major ones, but I'm sure everyone would've liked the movie better with a few changes like more scenes from Snape's past and better makeup for Mr. Malfoy, but I'm restricted on words here.
End of spoilers.
You also probably should know that I've registered on IMDb JUST to rate this movie the pathetic 2 stars it deserves and write this review.
To sum it up, Yates, you're the biggest fool on Earth, oh and PLEASE read the books.