Part 2, the shortest entry in the series at 131 minutes - and written by Steve Kloves, who has authored all but one of the screenplays - finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert Grint), our three favorite and most familiar characters to emerge from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, still in the wilderness, just as they were when Part 1 ended. Part 2 follows right on the heels of Part 1, which was well made and darkly diverting but stubbornly incomplete as it barely stood alone, serving mostly as an appetite-whetting prelude to its followup, which finds Harry and his friends in an all-out war against the evil, snake-snouted Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) - He Who Must Not Be Named - who kicks off this ultimate episode by raiding headmaster Dumbledore's tomb in search of the Elder Wand, one of three Deathly Hallows that can grant him his cherished immortality. And it does so while delivering propulsive action, glancing back so that we get to reminisce just a bit, and tying together an impressive number of not-so-loose ends.Īnd although it's best viewed as the second half of a long film, it moves - and compels us - sufficiently to seem to justify the decision to split the movieization of Rowling's final book into two movies, which some detractors in the critical community (ahem) questioned, even though they (ahem) admired Part 1. HP VIII holds up in its expert delivery of the final battle, the showdown between good and evil that the series has been leading up to and that we have been keenly awaiting for a decade and through eight movies. Let the record show that the majestic final cinematic chapter goes in the books, despite carrying an intimidating level of lofty expectations, as a laudable successor to its "Harry Potter and the" predecessors - Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Chamber of Secrets (2002), Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Goblet of Fire (2005), Order of the Phoenix (2007), Half-Blood Prince (2009), and Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). It's the movie version of the second half of the seventh and last book, and the conclusion of the highest-grossing international franchise in movie history.
Ten years and seven movies later, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the imaginative, energetic, and climactic final installment in the admirably realized and fantastically successful series of movie adaptations of JK Rowling's epic, seven-novel fantasy about a boy wizard, finally (or is it too quickly?) arrives.
So here we are at the end of the road, our Potter training behind us, as it were.
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