The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 3D
 Once upon a time, Harry Potter was a disenfranchised orphan with a funny scar coming to terms with a legendary reputation he had no part in forging. With a chattering of whispers following him wherever he went, the boy who lived set out to fulfill a destiny already written. It was vague and a bit muddled at first, but eventually, that mission came into focus. He must grow up and kill Voldemort. En route to that predestined conflict, he met, befriended, battled, kissed, cursed and fell in love with an army of characters who shaped him and filled in the missing details. Soon, those friends, enemies, animals and advisors too had destinies. They had their own families, their own dreams and their own circle of friends. Further and further the web spun until Harry Potter was no longer just about Harry Potter. The disenfranchised orphan was one among many, the central figure who’s providence intertwined the paths of dozens both readers and viewers had come to love.
 Once upon a time, Harry Potter was a disenfranchised orphan with a funny scar coming to terms with a legendary reputation he had no part in forging. With a chattering of whispers following him wherever he went, the boy who lived set out to fulfill a destiny already written. It was vague and a bit muddled at first, but eventually, that mission came into focus. He must grow up and kill Voldemort. En route to that predestined conflict, he met, befriended, battled, kissed, cursed and fell in love with an army of characters who shaped him and filled in the missing details. Soon, those friends, enemies, animals and advisors too had destinies. They had their own families, their own dreams and their own circle of friends. Further and further the web spun until Harry Potter was no longer just about Harry Potter. The disenfranchised orphan was one among many, the central figure who’s providence intertwined the paths of dozens both readers and viewers had come to love.

-- Tribune: Here in "Deathly Hallows — Part 2" it's virtually non-stop action, though director David Yates, who has taken good care of these final four, ever-meaner Potter adventures, does a very crafty thing, following adapter Steve Kloves' screenplay. "Deathly Hallows — Part 2" doesn't come flying out of the gate, throwing computer-generated Death Eaters at your face. ... Part 2 begins, gravely, with Radcliffe's tense encounters with John Hurt (as Ollivander, the wandmaker) and Warwick Davis (as the sphinxlike goblin Griphook, with wee pointy teeth). These are conversations, not just exposition chunks, and they instantly remind audiences that while "Deathly Hallows — Part 2" will kill off various characters, some of them in startling and violent ways, it will also require a bit of actual, old-school listening.

-- Los Angeles Times: One of the pleasures of "Hallows — Part 2" is to see how the film's production team has expanded on relatively brief passages in the book and turned them into satisfying visual splendors. One of the best comes almost at once, with Potter and friends penetrating deep below the earth on a twisting and turning journey to see what's inside the Gringotts' vault belonging to Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter). Just as good is a wild and crazy magical blaze that engulfs that Room of Requirement when a Fiendfyre spell gets out of hand.

-- Roger Ebert: This movie is impressively staged, the dialogue is given proper weight and not hurried through, there are surprises which, in hindsight, seem fair enough, and "Harry Potter" now possesses an end that befits the most profitable series in movie history.

-- Washington Post: Feeling at once like an anti-climax and a spot-on send-off, the ultimate Harry Potter movie embodies all the elements that have made the franchise such a sturdy enterprise, from its cream-of-the-crop British cast to its lavish but unfussy illustration of a story that will always be captured best in readers' imaginations.