Latest Potter film sets tone for finale
Critics mostly applauded the latest “dark and despairing” Harry Potter film on Friday just hours after its young stars were contemplating their future at its world premiere in London.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One is the first of two movies based on the seventh and final book by J.K. Rowling, and its premiere was an emotional event for its stars who have literally grown up on set.
Although early reviews praise the film’s shift to the dark side, most are left feeling that it is merely an appetiser for the series finale next July.
Hollywood entertainment magazine Variety judged the film “dark and despairing” and “lumbering and gripping by turns, suffused with a profound sense of solitude and loss.”
Britain’s Independent newspaper celebrated “some beguiling scenes” before calling it “an entrée before the main course next summer.”
The Guardian’s review however was dismissive of the whole franchise. “Deathly Hallows looks great, in the way that a show home looks great,” it said.
There was a lingering suspicion, it added, that the whole series was “too lacking in wit, warmth and humanity to survive much beyond the moment.”
—AFP
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