Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

After the unbelievable dullness that was part 1, I was more than a little bit tempted to give this one a miss.

But then, having sold 15 million copies of the book in just the first 24 hours of its release, there surely must be something interesting in it and since none of that was in the first part...

*Spoilers*

We open to Harry and co deciding that they need to break into an evil witch’s treasure fault where they will no doubt find another of the horcrux.

If, like many other people, you slept through most of the first part, I should remind you that only by destroying all the horcruxes can they then kill the big bad Voldemort, but the horcruxes could be anywhere and could look like anything. You might think this would make matters difficult, but they tend to be in the very first place anyone decides to look for them, which is handy.

Now, in order to get into Witch’s secret chamber they need the help of a goblin, and thus bribe him with the Sword of Gryffindor...

...why?

The goblin does fudge all to get them in. The whole scene can be added to the pile of pointless that the first part started to build up.

They sneak in, the goblin betrays them, takes the sword, then moments later Voldemort has killed him and the sword disappears and goes back to the good guys. Admittedly not straight back to Harry, but close enough to make the whole thing pointless.

Oh, and obviously the horcrux was exactly where they thought it would be and another one bites the dust.

With the movie being over two hours in length, I won’t go through it scene by scene, but I have to point out one more pet peeve.

WHY DOESN’T HARRY DIE?!?!?!

Too harsh? Maybe, but they’ve clearly been building up to the fact that the only way to kill Voldemort would be for Harry’s death since the first film, and they explicitly state it in this film, so why doesn’t he bloody die?

Harry is not an interesting character, he is not the best wizard, his only claim to fame was that he would have to die. What went wrong?

I know, I know, it’s a kids film, but seriously, of the 15 million people who bought the book in the first 24 hours, I would wager about 14,999,972 were over the age of 12.

Harry should die.