What We've Been Waiting For

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2013)

Warner Brothers and the Potter team underwent a lot of unfriendly publicity when they decided to split J.K. Rowling's final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, into two separate films being released at different times. Outraged film journalists and bloggers claimed they were trying to gripe up as much currency this series could stretch out. However, after seeing both films, I understand and fully support the decision. This allowed the first film to slowly develop the thick novel's plot and gave everyone the room to breathe, and the viewer could following the plot without any confusion. Part II succeeds on even greater scales.
I saw Deathly Hallows Part 2 in theaters, the night it was released, at midnight, and after being a casual fan of the first seven films I never felt more satisfied, enthralled, or excited by a movie before. This is how an epic series should end. No matter what movie series your loyalties like with (Scream, Batman, The Godfather, Spiderman) every fan deserves a conclusion to their series like the one Harry Potter has achieved. Deathly Hallows Part 2 is what the characters and story have been geared toward for seven movies, what the filmmakers have been waiting to tell for seven movies, and what we've waited to see for seven movies. The aspect most present in Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the pathos plugged into every second of the film, making the story and the characters float on top of the emotional tone. The filmmakers treat our emotional equilibriums like horcruxes they have to break to assure the success of the picture. Trust me, every horcrux will be broken in your theater. Deathly Hallows is a wonderfully mature film, thankfully releasing itself from the family adventure it began as. The beginning films were wonderful for what they were, but Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the ripe entry where we witness the darkness we've been told about since the first days of Hogwarts. The darkness that is tapped into through the mood of the picture makes us feel like we weren't just hearing Wizard-urban legends for a decade.
Deathly Hallows Part 2's biting force is the direction by David Yates. Having a rough time adjusting to the series, Yates is in his element here combining his style with dramatic emotion, war action, and finality. The fight between Harry and Voldemort has been blueprinted since the day we signed on to be fans of the series, being the last film we know it's coming, we just want to get there. In J.K. Rowling's novel, there are a lot of twists that derail the plot from reaching that climax, but Yates paces them in such a way that makes them tolerable and even involving. Yates hits the hard scenes with just as much of a punch in which Rowling wrote them.
J.K. Rowling deserves a moment of silence for crafting this series, it's all her imagination and work on the screen. The history Rowling has thought up cracks through this installment beautifully. Part 2 brings back all the memories we made those first six years at Hogwarts and incorporates them into the plot. The characters feel complete, particularly Alan Rickman's Snape. Maggie Smith proves she's still a badass in Professor McGonagall's olden age. The only flaw with Rowling's source material is the film is occasionally stuck with cliché choreography within the written story and the character's not staying true to their realistic humanity. It's not a colossal flaw, but something most adventure-fantasy epics get wrong. Thankfully Harry Potter only floats into this in short occurrences. The most respected aspect of Harry Potter's success in the film community is the advances and proficiencies in its production values and technical aspects; the final installment don't dare slack. The set design is unbelievable, all the sets, not even just the Hogwarts castle (which may be at its best with the film's in-depth showing of destruction of Hogwarts). The photography is something Potter has improved the most on, here it sweeps the audience away like dust by a broom. The special effects are also a benchmark for the series.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the worst-case-scenario becomes a reality within the Wizard world. The more pain the characters are plunged into, the more the story is plunged into darkness, the more the film ties the viewer to its internal heart. The emotion it reaches for an fantasy picture is remarkable.he final entry of Harry Potter brings out the big guns and it has more gusto in its destructive action sequences than most Greek tragedies. Harry Potter was never given the same red carpet treatment Lord of the Rings was given in its shorter run, which is a shame because Deathly Hallows Part 2 is better than anything those three films dished out.
Rating: 9.5/10
Grade: A