harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 review

While Part 1 huffed and puffed for a slogging 147 minutes, Part 2 zips by in just over two hours, crowding the movie with incident. That’s a relief, since David Yates, who directed the last four Potter epics, was merely clearing his throat during last year’s Part 1.

So hip-hip and a blast of hurrays for Radcliffe. Fans will be wild about Harry and the way the quietly dazzling Daniel Radcliffe has grown in the role, from the 11-year-old orphan of 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to the haunted old soul we now see. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 puts a triumphant capper on a decade of Pottermania. While 007 shows no sign of calling it quits, wizard boy Harry has been retired by Rowling. Stick that up your Aston-Martin, James Bond. Rowling’s seven bestsellers for eight movies, a global box-office take of $6.3 billion, and the Hollywood heavyweight title as the most lucrative film series in, well, ever. What is dead is the Harry Potter film franchise that milked Brit author J.K.

Dead.” Say what? You know that’s not true. You need an actor with the dramatic heft of Ralph Fiennes to deliver the four words that vile Lord Voldemort hisses here with such lip-smacking, syllable-stretching relish: “Harry.

Harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 review