Considering the talent and experience involved in making this film, the outcome is a surprisingly and astonishingly dreary franchise-threatening second entry. Although set design and realisation are absolutely magnificent to look at and the cast is mostly good (Law and Miller are great, Depp is deployed sparingly, Waterstone is criminally underused and Redmayne is still mis-cast and looks passively startled the whole time), the basic issue is that not a lot actually happens for most of the long film. It is also difficult to warm to the characters, so that even the brief action sequences offer little in which to invest. A frisson ran through the cinema audience when the Hogwarts sequences appeared, and the series would benefit clearly from further visits in the future. This film is very much an exercise in treading water for the proposed five-film cycle, and perhaps a denser trilogy would have been a wiser proposition. Nevertheless, the final twist does set up (hopefully) the next entry reasonably intriguingly.
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