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Our beloved Harry and his friends have grown a year older. They have passed their OWLs with good marks and are now NEWT level students. They have grown older is emphasized through out the movie, they have started noticing girls (a lot) and love seems to be constantly in the air.

Harry is now a confident young man, he seems to have accepted the unpleasant facts and the inevitable. He is no longer the kid who stumbles into things, he’s now Dumbledore’s right hand man, knows he’s the chosen one and is trying to live up to the name. Dumbledore and Harry are trying to fight Voldemort but for that the secret memory of Horace Slughorn is needed. Harry’s mission is to get that memory without which nothing is possible. Draco Malfoy is getting inattentive, and is up to no good. and then there is the prince, nobody knows who the mysterious prince is.

The cast have grown with the characters and are now the master of their characters. Everyone has done a great job particularly Daniel Radcliffe who is every bit Harry Potter and has shown great comic timing. Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) and Jim Broadbent steal the show with the portrayal of  gentler side of dotage. Alan Rickman is powerful as ever and has only brief appearances despite his key role in the movie.

Emma Watson, Rupert Grint have also performed well. Rupert especially a very comic actor, his acting as a love sick boy was very humorous.

The directing and visuals in this one are marvelous. David Yates gives his best directing in his career to date, and does an amazing job of telling the storyline of J.K Rowling’s fantastic book. The visual effects are so well done and look so real. The cinematography sets the tone for the whole movie right from start to finish, and turns the series in a even darker direction.

There are also moments which are scary, overall this the the first Harry Potter film which feels the most accomplished.

Stuff the movie missed out –

This is my favorite section while reviewing movies based on books, in this section I merely tell you the things that was in the book but not in the movie.

1. No The Other Minister, we aren’t shown the minister of muggle’s or Cornelius Fudge or the newly appointed  Rufus Scrimgeour.
2. The departure from The Dursley’s .
3. We don’t get to see the breathtaking beauty Fleur Delacour.
4. Harry’s detention with Snape is mysteriously absent.
5. The romance between Harry and Ginny is surprisingly small.
6. The kiss between Harry and Ginny should have been longer.
7. Where did the half of The Lightning –Stuck Tower go? There was a nice fight after Dumbledore is killed.
8. After the movie my friend said the ending felt rather abrupt, of course it was abrupt – it had two chapters missing, The Phoenix Lament & The White Tomb.
9. Two new scenes were added that do not appear in the book: The collapsing Millenium bridge (at the beginning of the film, and which appears in the Third Trailer) and the Death Eater attack at the Burrow (seen in the second trailer). An attack on a Muggle bridge is actually mentioned in the original opening of the book by Cornelius Fudge, but not shown.

Hopefully the rather sad funeral of Dumbledore will be shown in the next movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1. It is really good that the last book is being made into two movie so they’ll be able to do justice to it.

What do you think…. tell me in the comments.