I want to start off by saying that I read and loved all of the Harry Potter books so my opinion on the movie may be a little skewed by that now. The books were easily one hundred times better than the movie but that's a given for most movies so I really tried my best to view the movie independently from the book. I remember as a young kid when I hadn't read the books yet, I loved the Harry Potter movies, especially the Deathly Hallows but now that I've read the books my opinion has totally changed.
I would like to talk about the choices director David Yates made in his casting. I feel like someone better than Daniel Radcliffe(Harry) could've been picked for the part. This is most definitely due to me reading the book, because I pictured harry as way skinnier and taller and with green eyes. I feel that other than that, the directors other casting was good. Another questionable choice I saw from the director in this particular film was the absence of the Weasley brothers. Anyone who has read the book knows that they are pretty important and the fact that they are barely part of this film is quite sad.
I think one of the most poorly done scenes in this movie had to have been the wedding scene. I verbally assaulted my television when I saw how this was done. Not only did the director have the audacity to ignore the fact that Harry wasn’t allowed to be seen by people in the book and had to wear a disguise, but Yates made it so Harry walked around talking to friendly people. Even when the Death Eaters arrive it's done terribly with no climax whatsoever. All of this, with sub par acting in my eyes makes this scene absolutely terrible.
At the end of the day though what really killed this movie for me was the fact that they rushed through such important parts. The wedding and the entire beginning is an example of that. Build ups are completely skipped and it was even split into two 2 hour movies! The director's choices in randomly embellishing scenes while completely ignoring main plots makes this movie rushed and boring to me. It feels like there's no reason to continue watching because there really is no build-up. It was quite stale throughout and I found that I was focused on being annoyed with the director’s choices more so than actually watching the movie. The fact that the film had a £150,000,000 budget and wasn’t able to correctly create buildups and climaxes is depressing really. I think they spent a little to much money on their (very few) action scenes and the scenery in the film such as Hogwarts itself. Overall I would give this movie a Bad for subjective enjoyment and a bad for objective. You really have to stick to the books for this one.
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