It was the end of the world and we were there to see how it went down....

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2011)

It is strangely fulfilling and so deeply disturbing how this is the last Harry Potter movie. It is a movie franchise that started off when I was a kid - as so many of its fans were - and it ends with me and the characters growing up. The troublesome trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione are back for one final act of their epic fight over the greatest evil the magic world has ever seen and he is stronger than ever as well. The twists, the turns, the magic, the spells, the bright flashes from wands, the suicidal spells, the walking stone warrior guys, the heart in the movie, the kids standing up for what is right all o this and so much more make this movie so believable and multiple-watch worthy.
The performances by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are as good, if not better, than ever. They have indeed pumped in all their best chunks of acting they have learnt through out these years on the sets of their historical rise to super-stardom. Matthew Lewis (Neville)finally gets some bid screen time and does brilliantly well as the leader of the Hogwarts student camp at Hogwarts when Harry is not around and he knows how to look good and stupid with a sword. Alan Rickman (Snape) churns out another perfect performance as he has been doing for so long. That man deserves a hell of a lot of praise for the aura in which he portrays his character. He is actually one of the major cast members and equal to the prime trio in y honest opinion. Ralph Fiennes is back as Voldemort and as McGonagall says it "Its time to call him by his name and not you know who". We finally get to see a real dark side from The Dark Lord which we have only seen glimpses of in so many previous films. A hero is worthy only when he has a worthy adversary and it doesn't get worthier than him. Last but not least the final cast member who has been missing for so long, Hogwarts Castle, how we missed you. The castle in all its glorious grandeur and appetite for destruction comes back with a bang and after all the battling is done the castle never looked more grand than it did at that moment.
I personally hope that Steve Kloves gets an Oscar nod for his spectacular script work. He puts in every bit of imagination in his head and all that the fans think is possible to see in the world of magic. There is not a boring moment throughout the entire movie and most of it can be credited to his air-tight writing. David Yates finally brings out the flashes from wands and spells and magic that all of us might have missed for sometime now. His well directed stories finally have a lot of action infused in the final one of them and the results are there for everyone to see.
For a few corny dialogues, the cast, the brilliant characters, the writing, the direction and almost any other positive you can think of when you see a great movie and also the stubble on Harry's face which does reflect a true warrior who is facing the greatest test of this time I give it a 9/10.