Saw it last night and thought it has the potential to be my favorite to date. I really enjoyed the whole flick, but I had a couple of complaints. it felt like they really rushed through everything. It was barely over 2 hours, but given how much more they could have dipped in to some other characters and plots I think it should have been stretched out to at least 2 1/2 hours. Even though I haven't read the book, I have a feeling they could have stretched it out that much more than not slowed the pace down a bit.
I thought a few good characters (Luna, Tonks, LeStrange) were underutilized. Honestly, I felt a lot of people were underutilized...it went so fast and there was so much going on, but yet I felt so many characters didn't do much.
Even though I have a few gripes it really didn't take away from my enjoyment of the movie. The Voldemort/Dumbldore battle was fantastic...you'd kind of been waiting for a truly powerful match between equals after watching Harry (a rookie) go up against all the incarnations of Voldemort. I also really liked seeing Harry step up and become a leader in Dumbldore's Army. Nicely done. And Delores Umbridge...I don't remember the last time I hated a character in a movie so much.
Can't remember the actress's name but she did a fantastic job in that role.
John
