Way to go, Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (25 July 2011)

Before any fanboys, fangirls or IMDb users mark this review as "not helpful" without actually reading it (based on the 3/10 rating), I beg you to read this as a whole and not be a butthurt fan who can't stand someone criticizing the "best movie of our generation".
The final Harry Potter book was epic, the reason they split it was because the whole book was you couldn't really omit any important part of it without losing relevance. When I first watched the 7th movie I was really surprised since it was impressively loyal to the book. The first movie had been 90% true to the novel, they really couldn't mess up the second part, could they? But they did. The movie starts dramatically with shots of Hogwarts and Professor Snape staring at students from his balcony; the next scene showed the trio making plans for breaking into the magical bank of Gringotts... there was where the movie started to go downhill.
The book was perfect, marvelous, but after 10 or so minutes the movie started to focus more on humor than drama. Yes, HUMOR. There was a missing important character in the beginning and while funny somehow, the scene at the bank simply wasn't really loyal nor impressive.
Instead of pointing out every difference in the book, I'll just criticize how the second and third acts were more focused on humor than drama. Ron and Hermione being attacked by a tsunami and then kissing? The whole D.A. members looking more like scolded children than a suppressed army?
There's a HUGE difference between doing the final confrontation in front of everyone (explaining it all, as in the book) and making Harry and Voldemort chase around Hogwarts and throw themselves from a balcony. Destroying the Elder Wand with his hands and rushing a "19 years later" epilogue has to be the worst ending ever.
Way to go, Hollywood. I really couldn't believe that you could kill the whole drama in one of the best fantasy books in the last decade. If you want a GREAT fantasy book-to-movie adaptation watch the first Narnia movie, that's one the few cases when a movie's better than this book.
I might have left out how the movie had no 3D effects (other than the Dragon at the beginning) and was a whole rip-off my money...