A middling series ends on a low-point.

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2011)

I'll admit that I've never been big on the film series as a whole (only saying I even liked two of the installments), but after the major emotional improvement that was Deathly Hallows: Part I it just felt like they threw all of that way for Part II. They put 95% of the focus onto Harry and let all of the other characters fall by the wayside, so when major emotional peaks happened like the Hermoine and Ron kiss that had been building for eight entire films, it became this throwaway moment that had no significance. This happened a good dozen or so times throughout the film with moments that were supposed to be huge emotional payoffs and ended up just feeling like footnotes on "The Harry Story" for two hours.
This is the only film in the series where I felt like they should have actually made it longer, since instead of dragging like some of the installments it felt like so much of it was incredibly rushed to get to Harry's big scenes (several of which did drag a lot). Several of the big moments felt incredibly cheesy, but the action scenes were pretty well done other than the pauses in the middle of them for poorly delivered one-liners. My favorite character in the book series ended up being someone I couldn't have cared less about in the films and his huge moment here gave me absolutely nothing. Overall, a large disappointment to end a very disappointing series.