Well that was anticlimactic. Here for once you have this massive large-scale epic, full of revelations and twists and action, and the movie cut most of it out? How incredibly dumb. Moments that everyone loved in the book are here lazily thrown in, almost as if you hear Yates complaining, "Do I have to?". Others are cut completely for no worthwhile reason, and entire plot revelations that cast much of the series in a new light in the books are here cut out. What you're left with is a short and mostly unseen battle scene, a final fight that no longer makes any real sense or impact, and a hilarious makeup-job ending.
Still, it's not all bad, as the first half of the movie is actually pretty good at depicting hollowed-out version of events from the book. Despite this, this toned down film making has convinced me that years from now, nobody will really remember the Harry Potter films particularly fondly. They will never be the classics they could've been.
