Since the third Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban", which according to me was the best of all, the books' plots were thickening too much for the movies to let anybody who hadn't read Rowling's stories understand any of what was going on. The misteries were unveiled too fastly and the action unrolled with no emotion at all. This sixth opus is no exception to all that, but remains probably the best post-Harry Potter 3 movie in the saga (for the books, I must say my favorite is, with the 6th and 7th opuses, the very one which became the worst movie : the fourth).The main reason of this amelioration in the movie adaptation would probably be that the book itself was a bit shorter ?
Moreover, the beautiful opening scene with the London City Hall and the Millenium Bridge adds a lot of quality to the film (although in the final book we know that the action isn't set after the construction of those recent buildings, but I won't go nerdy about this... ^^). Plus, of course, the special effects and the cinematography, which are absolutely perfect (the smoke effect is particularly terrific !).
Another thing to praise would be the way this entire educational world (Hogwarts teachers of magic) is described while struggling and interacting with dark forces, just as actual Europe's (muggle) educational world is now struggling with political (very dark !) forces.
But I guess it's Rowling's talent here and not precisely the filmmakers' ability.
But despite those qualities - and Alan Rickman (who is, to me, the best actor in the saga, with Ralph Fiennes who wasn't really there for this opus), the movie somehow missed the point, with the (almost) final scene, where one of the most important events of the whole saga happens (don't worry I won't spoil).
While these 3 last movies lacked feelings and were too fast where they ought to be slower and full of emotions, on the contrary, this very scene required speed and coldness, darkness, hardly no emotion at all - just like in the book, where it was truly stunning. Here in the movie it came out to be way too slow and not dark enough (and this is because of the need to explain the existence of the scene itself, as the background had not been enough developped).
It should have been some kind of huge final dark scene like the one with Harry Two-Faces (not Potter) in "The Dark Knight".
Too bad they gave the whole set of final Harry Potter movies to David Yates (and he's probably not the only one to blame here).
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