David Yates should be incarcerated

Rating: 4/10 (28 July 2016)

I have waited a good time between reading the books and seeing this movie the first time to try to give the film a second chance with more of an advantage. It did not work at all.
A book that was exciting and for the older audience was turned into pablum. I actually felt like gagging at times. And what he got wrong was completely needless and diminished the characters of the book. It saved neither length or added interest. The pace was tedious and the dull.
At one point Umbridge forces McGonagall to step down and retreat. Anyone who has read the book knows how out of character that was and to weaken a strong female character was senseless. One scene has Dumbledore yelling at the students in a childish fit of bad humor. Again, out of character and needless. It added time to the scene and added nothing to the plot or the character. It diminished him.
The actors were great. The movie should have been great. Instead it was a great disappointment.