Harry Potter Review

Harry Potter Review. For the moment, though, we have 'The Deathly Hallows', and it’s everything we have come to expect: exciting and menacing, packed with stunning effects, tender and romantic, chilling and funny and, happily, not at all sentimental.

When it comes to tonight’s midnight release of part one of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the key word seems to be“excited.”

The teenage wizard is back with his fearless trio of spellbinders – Harry, Ron and Hermoine – it’s one last stand against the evils of the increasingly powerful Dark Lord Voldermort, and there’s more than just what the book contained.

In the first of a two-part final telling of the amazingly successful J.K. Rowling stories of magic – Part 2 arrives next July – we have a more Earthbound background, though still one packed with the mythical references we have come to love .

The central characters have, naturally, grown up and so too has their impact as the series draws to a climax, for one thing the perpetual swot Hermoine (Kate Watson) here comes into her own with a more telling role.

This seventh film in the franchise, directed  by David Yates, begins with nearly suffocating tension, as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself face-to-face with his destiny: being the target of the evil Lord Voldemort's deadly wrath. Friends and allieswill have to band together to protect him; some of them won't make it out alive.

Finally, the weight of Harry's past and the frightening unknown of his future are about to collide.

Yates' film is gorgeous with sprawling, end-of-the-Earth shots of foreboding mountains and lonely beaches that reflect the characters' moods.

Interestingly, at the London premiere Rowling hinted, albeit vaguely, that this, the seventh of her wonderful books, need not necessarily be the final one.

For the moment, though, we have 'The Deathly Hallows', and it’s everything we have come to expect: exciting and menacing, packed with stunning effects, tender and romantic, chilling and funny and, happily, not at all sentimental.

Harry Potter Review