Alan Rickman - Yes! The rest of movie - NO!

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2014)

Alan Rickman did an awesome job with his portion of the story - his character was never separate from the book character. But the story was so rewritten as to miss many points that were important to the story. I understand how writers want to make the story their own from the original book writer but the value in the story comes from characters. Harry Potter was an introvert played by an extrovert actor. There were bits of the story from the book such as the final between Voldemort and Harry that went so much deeper to me in the book. Some of that value was lost in how the film portrayed the scene.
Many shots were filmed so dark as to be almost too dark to be seen. It was a dark story but did not need this lack of creative styling. As much as I love the books is how much I hate this film.
The only other positive credit I would give this film was to return to John William's music for the final scene into the beginning of the end credits! Because I appreciated Rickman's and William's parts, I gave higher points than this film deserved.