Unimaginative and Unoriginal.

Rating: 2/10 (5 December 2019)

I have recently decided to watch the Harry Potter films from start to finish on Netflix. I have never read the books so I am not comparing the stories in these films from the novels.
First of all I was quite impressed by the visual effects throughout the movie, however the plot is really where it all went down hill.
In these films a lot of the things that happen feel like plot convenience. Why did Harry Potter shoot snape with his wand spell? It wasn't used to highlight the change in Harry's character, it just feels like the writers wanted snape and Harry to hate each other throughout the movies for not much reason. If the plot made sense, and if snape was a genuine character he would like Harry and would want him on slytherin with his ability to speak to snakes and his immense power. Let's not even get started on how stupid and non believable the interactions are with Harry and Malfoy throughout the earlier films.
The main reason that led me to write this review was the time travel sequence which tied together the plot at the end of the film. This would have to be the most unoriginal and bland plot device I have ever seen. In my opinion time travel makes no sense in the Harry Potter universe and it just creates so many plot holes and things to question. How could Hermione have received such power? This is potentially the strongest power in the Harry Potter universe and Hermione just goes "oh yep I've been using it to get to my classes on time". All of these was justified within just one scene. What were the writers actually thinking? If this is in the books then I really hope that in the books they go through Hermione receiving this power and using it to get to her classes.
The entire sequence was just hard to watch. Even like the directing of the sequence was really hard to watch. There was no suspense throughout, they never almost got caught, when they were supposed to get caught everyone is looking at some strawberry field in the distance or something. I mean there are much more intense and original ways this sequence could have panned out. Maybe Hermione did see herself in the forest and that's what led her to go back in time? Maybe there was an actual purpose of going back in time in the first place? Proving that Sirius black was innocent would've been very easy and throughout the series it feels like Harry and his little team are by far more intelligent than anyone on screen even his enemies.
Long story short I went on to watch goblet of fire until I got to the opening scene where these two guys waited for Harry and the gang in the forest instead of their house and one just randomly pops out of a tree. The whole story is unoriginal and unimaginative. Sorry potter fans. I'm not a fan.