Movie guide banner
MOVIE GUIDE
 
 
Monday, May 21, 2012 12:07:59 PM
 
 

The early reviews are in: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

 

The early reviews of the latest - and last - in the Harry Potter series are out. Take a look to see what the critics are saying.

 
July 5, 2011
 
 
 
The British reviews of the latest - and last - in the Harry Potter series are out. Take a look to see what the critics are saying.
 

The British reviews of the latest - and last - in the Harry Potter series are out. Take a look to see what the critics are saying.

Photograph by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros.

 
The British reviews of the latest - and last - in the Harry Potter series are out. Take a look to see what the critics are saying.
<b>Jordan Farley, SFX Magazine: </b>"Set pieces so spectacular you'll sit in awe at what the British film industry can achieve these days."
<b>Shaun Munro, What Culture: </b>"Bear with the slow start and what you get in this bookending instalment's latter two acts is more pathos, exhilaration, and sheer entertainment value than anything else in the entire eight-film, ten-year saga."
<b>Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo: </b>"Love, loss, courage, hope and humour -- Deathly Hallows offers them all in what proves a worthy finale to the Potter saga."
<b>Simon Reynolds, Digital Spy:</b> "It's Harry Potter as a full-tilt action picture, yet unlike the mind-numbing action of Transformers, here you feel totally invested in the protagonists' plight."
<b>Mark Adams, Screen International: </b>"Director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves seem to be in complete harmony as they wrap up subplots, give minor characters a time in the sun and head the lead characters into the final showdown."
<b>Daily Express:</b> "The film's greatest success may lie in its balance of breathless action and heart-rending emotion."
<b>Matthew Turner, ViewLondon:</b> "Delivers the action-packed finale fans have been hoping for and the required emotional kick, even if it can't quite convincingly pull off the various romantic couplings."
<b>David Edelstein, New York Magazine: </b>"Seeing Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson together for presumably the last time brought a tear to my eye."
<b>Elisa Roche, Daily Express:</b> "This final film in the JK Rowling saga is a triumph for all involved and a great testimony to the skill and expertise alive in the British film industry."
<b>Richard Godwin, This is London: </b>"The real stars are the armies of technicians, responsible for the ghouls who float eerily around Hogwarts; the scene in which all that the heroes touch replicates itself; and the dragon over London. This is the real magic, and perhaps our last authentic industry."
<b>Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: </b>"Fully justifying the decision, once thought purely mercenary, of splitting J.K. Rowling's final book into two parts, this is an exciting and, to put it mildly, massively eventful finale that will grip and greatly please anyone who has been at all a fan of the series up to now."
<b>Alistair Harkness, Scotsman: </b>"For the millions of fans who've grown up with Potter, it's good enough to make saying goodbye a tougher proposition."
<b>Emanuel Levy:</b> "The most eagerly-anticipated movie event of the year, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,&#8221; the final chapter of the successful franchise, not only does justice to the whole series, but ends on a high and satisfying note an adventurous journey that began in 2001."
<b>Peter Bradshaw, Guardian:</b> "This is such an entertaining, beguiling, charming and exciting picture. It reminded me of the thrill I felt on seeing the very first one, 10 years ago. And Radcliffe's Harry Potter has emerged as a complex, confident, vulnerable, courageous character."
<b>Grant Rollings, Sun Online:</b> "While the performances of its stars may not break new ground, Deathly Hallows Part 2 remains something to be cherished. A terrific movie and a great British success story."
<b>Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail:</b> "It&#8217;s awesome stuff. Much more fun than having to watch Ron and Hermione have a big smoochy kiss."
<b>Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph:</b> "Perhaps the greatest triumph of this final film is its ability to overcome the deficiencies of J K Rowling&#8217;s writing... Yates here transmutes it into a genuinely terrifying spectacle, as bloodied students fight desperately against a horde of screaming black-robed Death Eaters."
<b>Alonso Duralde, The Wrap:</b> "With the million awful, tacky, shrill, stupid, condescending, tasteless, &#8220;Eragon&#8221;-y things that could have gone wrong over the 10 years and eight movies that brought J.K. Rowling&#8217;s mega-popular Harry Potter series to the big screen, it&#8217;s practically a statistical anomaly that the final entry, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,&#8221; brings its A-game from start to finish."
<b>Richard Jordan, Total Film:</b> "An intense siege movie largely set within the school grounds, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 benefits greatly from the return to home turf, boasting an urgency that&#8217;s miles away from the meandering, on-the-road adventures of Part 1."
<b>Christopher Tookey, Daily Mail: </b>"Some of the other blockbusters this summer have been as spectacular, but only this one will have audiences brushing away a tear by the end. It&#8217;s a rare film that manages to be both spectacular and sweet."
<b>Graham Young, Birmingham Mail: </b>"The decision to make this the first genuine 3D movie pays off. The extra dimensions draw you into the characters and help to make some of Daniel Radcliffe&#8217;s action scenes truly spectacular."
<b>Justin Chang, Variety:</b> "The series' shortest entry at 131 minutes, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" surges ahead with tremendous urgency, superb spectacle and powerful, even overwhelming emotion, only to falter with a hasty sendoff that seems to buckle under the weight of audience expectations."
 
 
 
 
 

More Stories »

 

More Photo Galleries

third year

Blind Surrey girl ran in Rick ...

A Surrey SFU student blind since birth participated...

 
Marilyn Herrmann,

Surrey's Breakfast with the Bank...

It was a packed room at the Surrey Food Bank's 10th...

 
kamloops news

Surrey man presumed dead after...

KAMLOOPS - With explosives strapped to his chest, ...

 
 
More Stories »
 
 
Movie Information
 
 
 
 

Most Popular News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Inside Surrey Now