A beautiful end to this magical journey

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2015)

Rating-9/10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the final part of the massively popular and wildly huge franchise that is Harry Potter. This is the most emotional but also most gripping of all the films and really gets to the point and just gets on with what has to be done. Not only is this a step up in terms of plot, but in acting too and the technical plus the score side get even better too to create a just brilliant film.
We see our young characters continuing their quest for Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes and the attempts to destroy them and henceforth also trying, to destroy him. The plot is just great, it is paced well and the film really gets into what it is doing straight away, it literally contains no boring part, or part left untouched or too hashed out, this is class all the way through. Daniel Radcliffe has emerged a fine young actor through this, and maybe even just through the two Deathly Hallow movies, you can see he is perfecting his style and with a cast like this franchise has behind him, it isn't so easy.
David Yates returns as the director and he is well, what David Yates is always like in the Potter movies. All credit to him for not trying something wildly different but I still don't think his direction is spot on, he does however I feel do a well enough job. As for the writing I felt the same, not perfect but OK, of course when adapting a book it is not always so easy to find the right lines from the source material, or to make up your own, but Kloves does well in adaption. This is the most technically advanced Potter, and surely one of the biggest of 2011, the visual effects are staggering and you forget at times there being used, just beautiful work from that department.
Yet another fantastic thing about this is the score, now of course Harry Potter is known for it's scores and how wonderful they sound, but Alexandre Desplat goes even further. This man is a genius with movie music, he just knows exactly when to play the right tune, what the best thing to play is to not only make you feel pumped, but also tug at your heartstrings. If one thing from this movie can make you feel emotional, I will bet it is one scene with the glorious work of Alexandre Desplat.
I felt throughout this should please fans of the book and also the fans of the movie series, yes OK the franchise did deviate from the book at times but all in all this is too good a movie to just criticise on that point. I felt if the directing and writing would have been great, this is the kind of movie we could have seen getting awards in that department. One more thing along those lines is that this is one movie that deserved awards, sure films like this don't usually get them but this has so much emotion, so much in epic proportions that this by the end deserves recognition, and not just from Harry Potter fans.
I felt that overall this movie was just superb, a fitting end to a finely tuned family favourite and one that I personally hope generations to come can love and cherish. Don't judge Harry Potter as one film, judge it as the whole 8 movies in the series and when I do, all I see is how to make a franchise to perfection. This is by far the most emotional of them all as I said before and for good reason, so much happens and there is new things revealed, things from the past and of course new music from Desplat, yes take in the sights and sounds that Hogwarts have to offer, because this I say sadly, is the last time we will be going with our three friends.