"It all ends," and in dramatic fashion. Audiences for this must see film are chilled with the dark visuals, the ominous soundtrack, the violence and the deaths that bring to life J K Rowling's literary creation one last time - and it is a triumph. Director David Yates commits once more to an apocalyptic mood that infects the audience with a brooding trepidation throughout. No magically teleporting toilets or flying Ford Anglia in this final installment of the movie franchise. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows dives into the deep end and packs not just magic, but real violence into this last journey into Harry's fantastic world.The threesome of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint once again recapture the chemstry that captivated us when we first discovered the boy from the cupboard under the stairs on screen in 1997's Philosopher's Stone. What a journey we have shared, and now we see its end in a costly and climactic clash between Harry and his evil nemesis Voldemort. The movie once again follows the trio as they hunt and destroy the horcruxes that are the key to the Dark Lord's immortality. This leads to a spectacular clash of forces around, where else, the grounds of Hogwarts.
In Deathly Hallows part 2, the deaths that haunted audiences are explained, if not justified, the betrayals are examined, and forgiven; and the romances that were consummated now blossom in the heat of war. Harry's hero's quest and the trio's journey from adolescence into adulthood comes to fiery completion. Each film in this remarkable series has done great credit to the books that inspired them and this film is no exception. In a summer movie season that's been hit and miss, as far as block busters are concerned, Deathly Hallows part 2 hits and hits big.
