Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is a major departure from the rest of the series. This is a surprisingly slow, meandering film. Taking your time with a story requires a lot of skill to prevent the movie from becoming boring and the filmmakers succeed here. This film is in many ways more of a thriller than an action-adventure. Where previous films would have featured an action sequence, Deathly Hallows has moments of tension.
As someone who has not read any of the books I have always felt this series did a good job of keeping the uninformed aware of what was going on. For the most part Deathly Hallows follows this trend; although at times I felt as if I was missing something, which almost never happened in the previous films.
Deathly Hallows is also significantly darker than any of the previous films. I was shocked at how far they went with the story considering how tame the rest of the series has been. This is by no means a bad thing, however, since the darker this series gets the better the films are. 4/5
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