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   Description: The nefarious Lord Voldemort and his followers, including   
   Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy, continue to grow in power,   
   threatening everything that Dumbledore risked his life for. Having   
   learnt everything that they need at Hogwarts, Harry, Ron and Hermione   
   embark on a perilous quest to track down the mysterious Horcruxes that   
   could stop the forces from darkness from taking a stranglehold over   
   the wizarding world.   
      
   Duration: 146mins   
      
      
   It¡¦s not quite the end, but the end is undeniably nigh: this is the   
   first of two films of J K Rowling¡¦s final Harry Potter book. It¡¦s a   
   bleak prospect for addicts and they will, in turn, find that this is   
   the bleakest movie to date.   
      
   The essence of the saga¡¦s charm has been that they are, at heart,   
   boarding school stories, with magic thrown in. Well, this film   
   doesn¡¦t feature Hogwarts at all. It begins, like the others, with   
   Harry approaching his birthday chez Dursleys. Except he isn¡¦t going   
   back to school. He¡¦s embarking on a quest finally to bring down   
   Voldemort by destroying the missing horcruxes ¡X bits of the evil   
   wizard¡¦s soul embedded in assorted objects. So there are none of the   
   feasts, the fun, of school life: this story is down to the three   
   friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, facing enormous odds against a   
   Voldemort who is resurgent, but still without a nose.You can tell   
   this is grimmer from the colours alone: it starts off in black, with   
   the macabre Death Eaters¡¦ get-together at Malfoy Manor. It goes on in   
   various shades of grey and white, as the friends end up in forests by   
   night (including the Forest of Dean), or in Godric¡¦s Hollow on a   
   snowy Christmas Eve, or on limestone pavements in Scotland, or in the   
   unremitting gloom of Grimmauld Place. That pretty well echoes what¡¦s   
   going on psychologically: the horcrux they wear in turn brings out   
   jealousy in Ron, savage temper in Harry.   
      
   One of the very few tender moments goes off piste from the book, when   
   Harry and Hermione, stuck in a tent, dance to music from a dud radio;   
   there¡¦s plainly rather good chemistry between Emma Watson and Daniel   
   Radcliffe.   
      
   There¡¦s magic, of course, and the film has fun with Polyjuice potion,   
   which at one point produces seven Harry Potters, one in a bra.   
      
   Nagini the snake is the stuff of nightmares, though he¡¦s run a close   
   second by Helena Bonham Carter, a dead ringer for Medusa as an   
   unhinged Bellatrix Lestrange.   
      
   As for poor Dobbie the house elf, he gets his stab at heroism. And   
   director David Yates¡¦s approach emphasises in cinematic references   
   the fascist character of the Ministry of Magic and its campaign for   
   racial purity.   
      
   It¡¦s gripping alright, but ends all too abruptly. I asked three   
   little girls afterwards ¡X they were astonishingly stolid about the   
   scary elements ¡X what they¡¦d made of it. ¡§Sad¡¨, they said in unison.   
   Yep, that¡¦s about it.   
      
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