User blog comment:Kate.moon/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Review Page/@comment-3244803-20110720122453

Despite the bias associated with being an obsessive Harry Potter fan, I can safely say that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, as the conclusion of the Harry Potter movie series, was a success. But as a representation of the phenomenally complex and epic tale of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the book, I felt that it fell rather short of expectation, though admittedly not entirely. As I said, as the conclusion to the movie series it was rather well done, the move from infuriatingly slow progress in terms of the finding of horcruxes (for audience and characters alike) in Part 1, to the fast-paced, all-action of Part 2 was expertly done and on the two occasions that I've seen  Part 2 the audience were kept on the edge of there seats irrespective of the occasional lulls in action and pauses for explanation of the storyline, which is as it should be. Now, although the audience may have been gripped by the all-out-action of say the Battle of Hogwarts, that part of the audience will have been those people that have only seen the films and not read the books, because the hard-core fans grinding of teeth was deafening. Pointless and ineffective things, like the fact that Voldemort's forces have suddenly ballooned a hundred-fold and now apparently snatchers are in the employ of Lord Voldemort looked rather ridiculous on-screen. Many mistakes were also made, according to the books, Voldemort cannot feel anything when his horcruxes are destroyed, yet in the films he gets progressively weaker as the pieces of his soul are destroyed. But the main thing for me was the fact that Harry begins BLOCKING killing curses in his final showdown with Voldemort, on many occasions Voldemort doesn't voice the incantation but the tell-tale green light is sent flying towards Harry, and he just waves his wand and stops the spell dead in its tracks. Further on from this, Harry is seen quite comfortably duelling Voldemort as if he were practising with a member of the DA, rather unrealistic when you think that the only wizard known to be able to hold his own against voldemort was Dumbeldore, hence why in the books Harry reveals himself at the last moment and they both cast a single spell, yet in the film Harry is suddenly able to duel with a skill equal to that of Lord Voldemort. Other problems became evident in the tying up of loose ends, not until Harry goes to sacrifice himself do we really find out that Lupin now has a son and the entire story-line development in terms of Harry becoming Teddy Lupins Godfather is missed out. I did enjoy Alan Rickmans and Maggie Smiths performance, my favourite line being "I've always wanted to use that spell!". But there was more that was missed out that could have made the film far better, such as the three-on-one duel with Slughorn, Kingsley and Mcgonagall against Voldemort and Hagrids appearance with Fang and Grawp at his side to wrestle giants. Although the movie in itself was a success, as a representation of the book I think it fell short, ""based "on the book by J.K.Rowling" has never been more true.