"It's a long story......"Deathly Hallows Part 1 is a marked improvement on the last episode, the low-key and dull Half-Blood Prince. This is the Harry Potter film that really shows how far the movie franchise has come since the early days. It is a dark film, but it is the consistently serious tone and performances that keep it engaging throughout, in spite of the episodic nature of the narrative and the tightly-controlled steady pace. Radcliffe, Watson and Grint rise to the challenge equally, with Grint now showing that he is capably equal to the other two leads. The sheer range of locations and situations covered gives this instalment a lot of visual and character opportunities which translate well to the screen, and the emotional and visual bleakness often makes this a film most definitely not suited to the younger end of the audience. Alexandre Desplat provides an excellent score. Deathly Hallows Part 1 is inevitably one long teaser for the finale, but it sets up the big finish in a very satisfying and coherent way - we can only hope that Part 2 will deliver the filmic goods.
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