Movie Review

The home stretch is always the toughest, whether for a sportsman or a mega billion dollar hyper popular movie franchise. And David Yates, who had been at the helm of the Harry Potter franchise since The Order of the Phoenix, shows some serious wizardry as the director to guide the series home in style with a brilliant mix of grandeur and heart wrenching emotions.

Those who are coming into the series for the first time will find the plot completely inexplicable. However, for the rest of us, we already knew Harry would be searching for horcruxes (objects containing parts of Voldemorts’ soul) and Voldemort would be searching for the Elder Wand (the most powerful wand in the world). The film draws these plots with great finesse aided by Steve Kloves’ great screenplay and the breath taking visuals from the soaring dragon in Gringotts, right upto the epic final battle at Hogwarts backed up by a great background score by Alexandre Desplat which gives the film that grand feeling we all expected.

We saw the lead actors grow up throughout the series and it was charming to watch them deliver in the final act with such effortlessness that we could easily think they were real. The rest of the veteran British cast did what we expected them to do: make the final act count. Perhaps no other actor could have played Lord Voldemort with such evil panache as Ralph Fiennes and only he could have said the lines, “Harry Potter is dead,” with such lip smacking, syllable drawing relish.

Cheers to the entire Harry Potter universe which embalmed us for so long with such conviction of ‘Expelliarmus’ being real, that no matter what, we have been Petrificus Totalled to remain in the magical world of Harry Potter forever. If you have even remotely heard of the phenomenon called Harry Potter, go and rejoice in this breathtaking, delightful and awe inspiring finale which brings the series to a satisfying, glorious and magical end.