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This is my review: Meh. That pretty much sums up my experience watching the final Harry Potter film. I was well-prepared and I had read the final book about a month ago to make sure I would be able to make an accurate comparison. I think that was my mistake. As a result, I was bored. The whole first half of the movie was, basically, a giant bore. I don't really understand why everyone hated the first part of the movie - I thought it was great. Yeah, the parts with them in a tent were boring, but they were way worse in the book. That's what I like about the movies - they take the boring parts of the books and make them more interesting or, at least, funny. Unfortunately, the last film didn't do that well enough for me. Seriously, the best way to describe it is... meh. Once the battle started, I was really disappointed. I thought they would show more fighting, and not some lame Voldemort plus Harry swirly black smoke monster. However, when they showed their faces melding tog

This is my sister's review: This movie makes Part 1 worth seeing, which is high praise considering I fell asleep in theater for that sleeper.* Helps you remember that this is just the way the book felt, so many pages of FUCKING CAMPING. In fact, if you haven’t seen Part II yet, stop reading this and go watch Part I. If that is definitely not going to happen, watch this short video that completely synopsizes the plot while including mostly movie lines and almost all replicated scenes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II is The Voldemort Movie of the franchise. Ralph Fiennes is wonderful: giddy, panicked, indifferently violent. His portrayal demonstrated how this is a man who split his soul so many times that he didn’t even notice one of them; something my reading of JK Rowling’s Voldemort didn’t give me. If this is The Voldemort Movie, Neville “people die everyday” Longbottom definitely gets second billing for long-awaited awesomeness. The courtyard scene was just right, e