It all ends..... badly

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2011)

Harry Potter ends - so here it is the epic story reaches its conclusion and we have the complete set of films all finished.
Oh dear... Like the novels the movies were really building up to become something great and I write this in utter disbelief but the ending, the ending to end all endings is a huge HUGE disappointment.
I didn't think it would be possible to botch the end so much, I had my suspicions after the way the first part turned out but hats off to David Yates but he did it, he really messed it up big time.
First of all I hated part 1 but I was led to believe the first part was merely a build up to an all action emotion wrecking finale. I was wrong.
You may believe you are about to witness the long promised "battle for hogwarts' involving all the characters you have grown to love over the past seven films. Wrong again.
In fact Neville apart you hardly see any other characters in it - you follow Harry alone, his thoughts, his decisions while the battle is happening elsewhere. Characters you have invested time in getting to know over the years die off screen with no emotional involvement, I wanted to follow Tonks, Lupin, George and Fred etc in the battle become tense as each of these are now fighting for their lives. ... I wanted to be devastated when these characters are taken away from us, I wanted to feel the vengeance that Mrs Weasley has when she kills Bellatrix
.....but no instead we have stone figures battling giants all because that looks better in 3d.
The only praise I will give is to Alan Rickman as Snape a real hero of the book reduced to a 5 minute run through of his thoughts that reveals the bravery and love snape locked inside himself. I would have liked to see this extended and cut out the stupid heaven scene.
I've never been so disappointed by an ending to a series, I cannot think what was going through David Yates mind when he decided to leave out most of the fighting and use lots of slow mo shots with strange music - urgh it was just awful.
The first six films were very entertaining but its all gone wrong at the final hurdle, what a huge shame, it could have been up there with the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings movies as legend but thanks to the studios deciding to split the end into a 4 hour+ borefest and David Yates suddenly deciding to dismiss all of the other characters like Tonks and Lupin I will never be able to watch the Harry Potters anymore - there is no point as I just couldn't sit though the last 2 parts again.