Yates retains his knack for gothic mood and relaxed adenoidal humor, normally a perfect mix for most of Harry's evil-defeating antics. For now, we're stuck with the schlepping. In the movie, we'll just have to wait until Part 2 gets released next summer. For page after page, the only thing pushing them forward is the hope of a thundering Wagnerian showdown at the close. For page after page, they suffer and bicker and fret. In the 146-minute running time of Part 1, director David Yates (returning for his third "Harry") and screenwriter Steve Kloves (returning for his sixth) have, in their efforts to stay true to the first half of the novel, re-created long stretches of meandering desolation that readers tend to rush through en route to the book's thrilling conclusion.įor page after page, Harry and Ron and Hermione schlep cross-country in search of Horcruxes, enchanted objects that hold bite-size chunks of soul from the evil Lord Voldemort.
The seventh and final installment in the storied magical saga is, after all, 759 pages long - an awful lot for a single movie to accommodate.
Rowling's book would be split into two motion pictures, it sounded like a pretty good idea. When the minds behind "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" first announced that J.K.
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