Great, but..ehh.

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2011)

The movie was overall: great. The direction, cinematography & the special effects were brilliantly executed. The acting was good too. Hogwarts and the way the directors and screen writers had shown it was brilliant! But there were many let downs; the style of Yate's directing is simply "let's just get to the point." There were a few good and bad things. I'll name just a few:
Good: Neville was really good. Liked him. Gringotts was well directed. The acting was at a great standard. The battles were quite good, could be a little better. Costumes were brilliant McGonnagal's fight scene against Snape
Bad: They should have showed a few more memories of Snape. I was looking forward to Hermione, Luna and Ginny battling Bellatrix before Molly stepping it. They should have allowed a little more dialog; Bellatrix taunting Molly about the death of George. It was too vague and too fast. You would've missed Bellatrix spell hitting Ginny if you blinked at the wrong time. I was also expecting McGonnagal's, Slughorn's and Kingsley's battle with Voldemort. Hagrid hadn't showed any real emotion when Harry "died". There were no real strong interactions with the characters except the trio. Bellatrix, Luna, Lucius (and many more) was left out with their brilliant acting and weren't really shown much throughout the movie. They should have added little cameos of The Divination teacher enchanting the magical balls and throwing them at the Death Eaters, a few Hogmeades villagers fighting against Death Eaters, other creatures coming to help etc. Another disappointment was the death's of main/side characters. Fred's, Tonks and Lupins death was a disappointment. They just..."died". Nothing more, nothing less. They didn't even give us time to grieve or look back at anything.
Well overall, the movie was great. But, they could have added just 10 minutes to the movie to allow more emotions and depth to it.