They sip down some more Polyjuice Potion and sneak into the Ministry disguised as three adult employees. They infiltrate the Ministry of Magic in a pulse-pounding scene that is one of the best 'Harry Potter' moments ever, and it doesn't even star the big three. He's joined by Ron and Hermione as they search for the items that hold bits of the Dark Lord's soul. Harry has tasked himself with finding the remaining Horcruxes so he can destroy them and once and for all rid the world of Voldemort. Sure there are a lot of quick cuts, but it's still easy to see what's going on. Director David Yates know his way around an action scene. Pluses of energy blast from wands as a wizarding dogfight takes place above London. As Harry and his friends who now look like him fly through the air, the Death Eaters intercept them. Whatever action was missing from 'Half-Blood Prince' is well represented here. It's light and humorous, but it's also the first time where the 'Harry Potter' films have actually made it feel like Harry and the people around him were in immediate danger.
The sequence where Harry's friends drink Polyjuice Potion in order to turn into replicated Harry's is one of my favorite scenes of the entire series, and it really sets the tone for this seventh movie. Voldemort is closing in on Harry's whereabouts, but Harry's colleagues are willing to help him try and escape. Harry and his friends are now facing a very real threat of being killed by the Dark Lord.
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That's exactly what the movie was missing, and that's exactly what 'The Deathly Hallows: Part 1' makes up for. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the sixth movie did indeed leave out a lot of the action that took place in the book. Too much soap opera stuff going on with the young Hogwarts students trying to find love in all the wrong places. The movie felt anti-climatic and bogged down with too much teenage, wizarding angst.
It's really no longer a movie targeted at kids, even though it's still labelled "Harry Potter".I enjoyed ' Half-Blood Prince' when it came out, but it always seemed like it was missing something. This movie has far too many scary scenes and little comic relief! Plus, the plot is quit complex including lots and lots of minor characters. All in all, as the title says, this is a excellent grown-up movie and I can recommend it to everyone - except kids! If you have little kids, please don't take them. Also with all the doppelgänger scenes, you always still saw from their movements and behaviour which character was which though they were in disguise in a different body. And I loved it! Last but not least, the acting was brilliant! The tense atmosphere between Harry, Ron and Hermione really came across. Now the soundtrack, too, has finally grown up. This also expresses itself in the decision not to include the childish Harry Potter musical theme (at least I didn't hear it, correct me if I'm wrong) from the first movie that sounds like "Wow, everything's so magical here!" That tune was fine for the first movie, but as Harry got older and the movies got darker, it kind of felt like they had to force this theme into every movie several times even though it didn't really fit any more. This HP movie was the first of all that finally gave me the same feeling as Lord of the Rings did: Boy, this is not just some guys slavishly adapting a book into a movie, but they're actually autonomous artists and they have ideas of their own! And I don't mean they changed the whole plot (I wouldn't like that)! But (mostly visually) they did more than just bring across what's in the book. Also the drawing style that was used during the story was really amazing. As the book is split into 2 parts, all of a sudden, there's also time for little embellishments I hadn't realized I had missed in the earlier movies! For example, I loved the scene so much where the feather floated through the air when the fairy tale of the Three Brothers was being told. Well, I'm always a big fan of the blurring of these clearcut good/evil categories in Fantasy. You can see them interacting with each other, discussing and well. They are no longer just anonymous caped figures. I love the way Voldemort and the Death Eaters are portrayed in this movie.
HP7 can take time to explain and introduce all the characters that are necessary to the plot. However, I must say it was definitely a wise decision to split the 7th book into 2 movies. But HP6 was such a patchwork of scenes that didn't give you the feeling of a coherent work - I was afraid the even more complex story line of HP7 would make an even less coherent movie. I guessed it would be darker and scarier, as every HP movie has been darker and scarier than its predecessor. After having seen HP6, I honestly didn't have great expectations in this one.
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