One word - Boring.

The first half of the movie was totally boring with lots of unimportant parts in it and removing good parts. And to add to the boredom, we had an idiot sitting right behind us explaining the movie to his friend all throughout the movie. In three quarters of the movie, only certain parts were slightly funny, and others were quite insipid. They concentrated too much on the main storyline elements to ensure that newcomers understood the story and in the process, let out on a whole lot of amusing and interesting moments. I felt that they could’ve devoted a little less time to few elements in favour for some action. Even a few seconds would’ve been enough to keep the pace going.

Unfortunately, the movie people thought otherwise and right upto the final fight of the movie, I remained quite bored. I would’ve slept if it had not been for the occasional joke which we cracked and Tonks, who was one of the main reasons for remaining in the theatre. The movie version deviated largely from the book, infact there’s a whole article describing the differences which can be read here.

The final 20 minutes of the movie was in 3D, it was pretty good but could have certainly been better. Sirius death was well characterised, but the other fights were just above par. One point I noticed was that Luna uses ‘Levicorpus’ against a death-eater but the spell had been discovered only in the 6th book. A lot of the major parts of the fight were cut out, and instead an unnecessary part about Voldemort occupying Harry’s body and Harry fighting him had been shown in great detail. The movie gets over before you realise it.

I was only mildly impressed with the movie. The 3D effect were average. It most certainly was not worth Rs.180. It gets 6.5/10.

Before the start of the movie, we were given a free bottle of ‘Thumbs-Up’ each but without a bottle opener and therefore, we left them under the chairs. It was good in a way since the movie didn’t have an interval much to our and out bladders dismay. If we had opened the bottles, there’s a good chance that we would’ve missed a part of the movie, but I wouldn’t have cared anyway, unless Tonks was there.

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