Quite a good movie with a bit too much melodrama

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2011)

I've watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 free of any expectations - since I only read the first four books of the novels anyway -, which turned this experience into something quite enjoyable.
While it failed to keep me in suspense and had an ending I found to be somewhat disappointing with regard to showing the aftermath (considering it being kinda short while it is indeed the last part out of 8 movies), the feeling the movie left in me was warm. I regard the sum of several single sequences and scenes as the reason for this. Regarding present movies there is some rare kind of content here, especially within the aesthetic and atmospheric slow-pacing moments (which were emptier and thus much worse in the Deathly Hollows part 1). This time these moments seemed to be a perfect counterbalance to the action, with dialogues and statements that hint at you to think and reflect about them, e.g. the comments on the circumstances by various characters, for example the scene in the woods at the end. I love this!
Nonetheless there were other aspects that almost destroyed the whole experience because in some parts the movie tried too much to be emotional in a technical way by means of too many methods of dramatizing. I don't know if this is also a problem of the books, but at least the movie could have made it different. Anyway, this doesn't work:
I mean, excuse me, at least one scene thoroughly outclassed the often adapted cult-scene of someone kneeling on the ground in the rain with a dying love-interest in his/her arms and crying "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" up to the sky. Well, this time it's the same scene but with a crying baby watching behind a playpen's bars... I almost laughed at this point. The quintessence of such scenes being over-stimulation or the unintended destruction of any other feelings, which wasn't necessary. Especially with regard to such good and wealthy scenes as mentioned, which achieved to deliver their messages quite clear in spite of being subtle, which shows the common producers' illness of underestimating its audience just once again. But well, these aspects didn't win. All in all: Recommended!