Friday, July 15, 2011

Movie Review - Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt 2 finale


To be able to watch this movie on the first day of its official launch is a big privilege nonetheless thanks to my beloved wife who made the effort to go all the way sacrificing her sacred one hour lunchtime to go to Cineleisure, Mutiara Damansara to buy the movie tickets. She managed to get us a beautiful couple seat in Row C for a 9.10 pm show(cant thank her enough for buying first day tickets for major shows!).

"I have always wanted to say that"

As usual, the movie started exactly where it left of in Part 1, with Voldemort ransacking the coffin of Dumbledore to obtain the "Elder Wand". The adventure soon after that involves Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione, finally deciding that the next step to further finding the next Horcrux lies in the pits of Gringotts. With the help of Griphook, a goblin who used to work at Gringotts, they managed to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault. The adventure then leads to them heading to Hogwarts for their face-off with their current headmaster, Severus Snape. The storyline does somehow shorten from the novel but this can't be helped as the show was only going for 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Voldemort and his death-eaters expecting Harry to turn up..

There a few flashbacks that showed Severus Snape when he was young, with the help of CGI, he looks a bit like a transsexual dude, but I guess that's how it is. The important part is the storyline anyways!. This part of the Harry Potter sequel does tell that it emphasizes more on action and fights with spells flying everywhere and the Death Eaters attacking Hogwarts with a big major finale. The acting from Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, is always superb and also the "long awaited kiss between Hermione and Ron" was nothing short of quality.

To cut things short, it is a great finale for a great series that has been around since I was small and it grew with me and for most of us, Harry Potter and his adventures lived inside our hearts and now its time for us to let him go. Not to forget, the movie did end with Harry and his friends sending their children to Hogwarts for magic education. THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS.

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