Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

Over all I would have to say that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 was a great movie. It had action, it actually followed the book quite closely and the special effects were great. I do however, have two major complaints about the film. The acting was spotty in places and sometimes the action was just a little bit too fast paced.

The acting of the support cast was magnificent, as usual, so the focus will mostly be on our heroic trio.

Rupert Grint gave a great performance as our lovable goof-ball Ron Weasley. His acting was solid the whole way though and we got to see some new emotional reactions from him that we hadn't seen before. I would probably watch Rupert in anything after his performance in the Deathly Hallows (assuming its not rated R).

Emma Watson, what to say about Emma? It really seemed that she was trying to take on a grown up role in this movie but she wasn't quite ready for it. Not that she was terrible, far from it, but there were parts in the movie where she didn't quite portray the scene intelligibly to the audience. Occasionally I had to reference the book itself (mentally) to understand what she was trying to portray in the scene. It felt, very much, that reference to the book was an expectation of her performance. Like in filming the director just let small things go because it's assumed that everyone watching the movie has read the books.

Daniel Radcliff suffered somewhat the same, but to a lesser extent, from the same maladies that effected Watsons' performance. Still fun to see Harry though.

The movie itself was darker than I expected, even having read the book a couple of times, and I'm actually surprised that it got away with a PG-13 rating. In places it felt very light-less as opposed to just dark.