Deathly dull.
It’s 2 ½ hours of exposition and wandering around forests. Voldemort as played by Ralph Feinnes continues to impress, the sets are amazing, the cast a who’s who of British talent but it’s scene after interminable scene of expository “And it was Clarence Wigglebump who gave the Menageriegoop to Felicity Witherbottom” type dialogue. In forests. For 2 ½ hours.
Breaking into the Ministry Of Magic and an animated story within the story near the end are probably the high points of the film, Harry’s dance with Hermione the low point. Clearly there is respect for the world and characters JK Rowling has created but this is in part the problem for me; slavishly adapting the books results in incredibly sluggish films, and, for all the talk of doom and gloom and sense of foreboding in the tone of the film, there is remarkably little urgency to the proceedings. I really didn’t feel any threat whatsoever and the sub-Lord Of The Rings style attempt to make the horcrux physically impact upon Harry, Hermione and Ron is very unconvincing and leads to a laughably bad moment where, for no reason I could discern other than it was a moment of contrived, cheap drama, Ron fights with Harry and disappears for a while. Only to re-appear a little while later and then just carry on.
I so wish I cared about Harry Potter. It’s clearly the most significant moment in pop culture in a very long time. If you think about it, it’s difficult to remember life without Hogwarts and Dumbledore and Voldemort and the other weird and wonderful creations in Rowling’s universe. But these films are 2 hours of nothing with a flurry of activity at the end and Deathly Hallows Part 1 is the most dull of all.
Still, the knitwear is good though.
3.5/10
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