Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Review

So I've recently started writing reviews for movies on RottenTomatoes.com and I figured I'd share them here as well.

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 was an artistic and well paced movie. I've read the books and I have to say that the movie did a great job depicting the scenes just as I imagined them. Not many movies based on novels can boast on this subject. The difficult part of making lengthy movies is pace, which I believe the Harry Potter series has been nailing in the last two movie releases. The storyline is obviously pretty solid but can get confusing to those who haven't read the books, and since it's based off the novel I can't really criticize.

There were its downsides though. The previous movie, the Half-Blood Prince, really pushed the situational humor of which I am a big fan of and didn't feel was as present in the Deathly Hallows. However, this can go either way for many viewers. I also find that the movie lacks tension and therefore robs the climactic scenes of their potential. In other words, the movie felt stimulatingly flat and constant. One other style of action films that I saw in the Deathly Hallows was the super shaky camera and viewers not knowing with even 50% confidence what is going on.

Overall, I thought the movie was absolutely beautiful, well paced and being a Harry Potter fan I loved watching it despite its flaws.