


We have Ralph Fiennes, playing the franchise baddie Lord Voldemort, who gets most of the screen time and milks his villainous role with appropriate relish. The cast’s incredible work has to be acknowledged. The filmmakers really outdid themselves when they found Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint a decade ago, while they were still preteens. Over the last ten years, we’ve been in the unique position of watching them grow up and mature physically and professionally. All three have turned into strong, central actors, and hopefully they’ll be able to venture out into successful solo careers, now that Harry Potter is finally behind them (though after a decade in the international spotlight playing iconic roles, this will not be easy). The veteran cast of theatrically trained British character actors also played a major role in the success of the series, and they all get one final chance to shine.
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The series does go out in appropriately large fashion, so we probably shouldn’t complain. Lord knows unhealthily obsessed fans will be far too busy cheering and crying to nitpick the details. evil battle, it ends it with little closure given all that’s come before. In fact, this could qualify as one of the biggest action movies of the summer, were it not for the fact that the film will not make sense to anyone who has not already watched the previous seven movies. This is essentially a feature length climax for the franchise, built to generate applause from fans, even though it wraps things up without paying much attention to the rich characterization that defines the series. All the major players get at least one scene, which for most amounts to little more than a cameo, as the movie’s epic plot, which is almost entirely focused on finding Harry, races on. I suppose that’s appropriate, but while the film aims to fill in plot holes and the finale is, of course, one hell of a good vs. Seven movies, one billion and $6 at the box office (and counting) later, the Harry Potter franchise finally comes to an end with an explosive finale that features about as much action as the rest of the series combined.
