Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 259
Fresh: 203 | Rotten: 56
It can't help but feel like the prelude it is, but Deathly Hallows: Part I is a beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying penultimate installment for the Harry Potter series.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 11
It can't help but feel like the prelude it is, but Deathly Hallows: Part I is a beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying penultimate installment for the Harry Potter series.
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The first installment of the two-film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows follows Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) as they search for the pieces of Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) soul that he extracted from his being and hid in obscure locations both far and wide. If the trio is unable to locate and destroy them all, Voldemort will remain immortal. Despite their long friendship, a combination of dark forces, romantic tensions, and long-held
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Cast
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Daniel Radcliffe
Harry Potter -
Emma Watson
Hermione Granger -
Rupert Grint
Ron Wesley -
Helena Bonham Carter
Bellatrix Lestrange -
Ralph Fiennes
Lord Voldemort -
Michael Gambon
Professor Albus Dumb... -
Alan Rickman
Professor Severus Sn... -
Robbie Coltrane
Rubeus Hagrid -
Bonnie Wright
Ginny Weasley -
John Hurt
Mr. Ollivander -
Timothy Spall
Wormtail -
Tom Felton
Draco Malfoy -
Miranda Richardson
Rita Skeeter -
Imelda Staunton
Dolores Umbridge -
Bill Nighy
Rufus Scrimgeour -
Richard Griffiths
Vernon Dursley -
Harry Melling
Dudley Dursley -
Julie Walters
Molly Weasley -
Ian Kelly
Herminone's Dad -
Michelle Fairley
Herminone's Mum -
Fiona Shaw
Petunia Dursley -
Carolyn Pickles
Charity Burbage -
Jason Isaacs
Lucius Malfoy -
Peter Mullan
Yaxley -
Guy Henry
Pius Thicknesse -
Arben Bajraktaraj
Dolohov -
Rod Hunt
Thorfinn Rowle -
Suzanne Toase
Alecto Carrow -
Ralph Ineson
Amycus Carrow -
David Ryall
Elphias Doge -
Brendan Gleeson
Alastor "Mad-Eye" Mo... -
James Phelps
Fred Weasley -
Oliver Phelps
George Weasley -
Mark Williams
Arthur Weasley -
George Harris
Kingsley Shacklebolt -
Andy Linden
Mundungus Fletcher -
Domhnall Gleeson
Bill Weasley -
Clémence Poésy
Fleur Delacour -
Natalia Tena
Nymphadora Tonks -
David Thewlis
Remus Lupin -
Frances De La Tour
Madame Maxime -
Evanna Lynch
Luna Lovegood -
Rhys Ifans
Xenophilius Lovegood -
Matyelok Gibbs
Auntie Muriel -
Eva Alexander
Waitress -
Simon McBurney
Kreacher -
Matthew Lewis
Neville Longbottom -
Devon Murray
Seamus Finnigan -
William Melling
Nigel -
Freddie Stroma
Cormac McLaggen -
Isabella Laughland
Leanne -
Jessie Cave
Lavender Brown -
Anna Shaffer
Romilda Vane -
Joshua Herdman
Gregory Goyle -
Amber Evans
Twin Girl 1 -
Ruby Evans
Twin Girl 2 -
Katie Leung
Cho Chang -
Georgina Leonidas
Katie Bell -
Louis Sheridan Cordi...
Blaise Zabini -
Scarlett Byrne
Pansy Parkinson -
Afshan Azad
Padma Patil -
David O'Hara
Albert Runcorn -
Steffan Rhodri
Reg Cattermole -
Nick Moran
Scabior -
Toby Jones
Dobby -
Sophie Thompson
Mafalda Hopkirk -
Daniel Tuite
Skinny Ministry Wiza... -
Daisy Haggard
Ministry Lift -
George Potts
Balding Wizard -
Rose Keegan
Red Haired Witch -
Ned Dennehy
Scared Man -
Kate Fleetwood
Mary Cattermole -
Daniel Hill
Bushy Haired Mutteri... -
Rade Serbedzija
Gregorovitch -
Jamie Campbell Bower
Young Grindelwald -
Hazel Douglas
Bathilda Bagshot -
Adrian Rawlins
James Potter -
Geraldine Somerville
Lily Potter -
Michael Byrne
Gellert Grindelwald -
Dave Legeno
Fenrir Greback -
Samuel Roukin
Snatcher -
Warwick Davis
Griphook
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Part 1, like its predecessors, has been made with great care, craft and attention to detail. It is also darker and more foreboding.
The trouble with Harry, as becomes clear from this seventh and penultimate installment, is not that we have lost the plot -- the film is as tangled and as corkscrewed as Bonham Carter's hair -- but that we are in danger of losing everything else.
There is much to love in the latest offering from the Potter franchise.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is slower and stranger than any of the previous films, simultaneously raising hopes for a haunting finale while dimming hopes for a magical one.
By any measure, Deathly Hallows is a ripping thriller.
This one is a long, archetypal journey that screeches to a halt a few stops short of its destination.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 isn't close to being a bad movie, but it is arguably the weakest among the seven films in the series.
It feels like the longest, deathliest panto ever made -- and still it isn't over.
Maybe Harry Potter could cast a magic spell over us before we see his new movie.
Yates does a pretty good job with the heavy lifting, but there's not much poetry to this exercise that brings the story of the boy wizard one step closer to its conclusion.
Deathly Hallows is the first Harry Potter film that fully delivers on the promise of J.K. Rowling's works, expertly balancing a tricky and expansive narrative, along with quiet character moments and some rollicking action sequences.
The entire cast does the subtlest work we've seen in a Potter film, right down to the supporting and single-scene players.
As J.K. Rowling wove a conclusion as ominous as it was elegant in the final installment of the Potter series, so too has director David Yates in Part 1 of Deathly Hallows.
Sure, there are some rearranging and compressing of scenes and facts, but the two-and-a-half hour runtime for half a book allows screenwriter Steve Kloves and director David Yates the space to faithfully retell a really good story.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is beautifully shot with wonderful atmosphere and an appropriately dark tone, making it a very enjoyable experience.
The biggest plus of this film is that the story is brought out of Hogwarts and into a greater world.
It's just a lot of smoke - literally and figuratively - that evaporates into thin air without meaning or context.
Alternately funny and touching, it's the best film in the series, an "Empire Strikes Back" for these wizards and their wizarding world. And those effects? They're so special you don't notice them.
This penultimate entry in the series lacks the life and the imagination of its worthy predecessors.
It seems unfair to chide the entire film for one sagging act, so in the end, this first part gets a slight recommendation for its characters, art direction, and some thrills.
Fans may think 2 1/2 hours is just right. Some of us would have preferred a little pruning.
... Radcliffe, Grint and Watson have grown into their roles so well.
A terrific set-up to the final chapter of our favorite boy wizard's saga.
Far more emotionally complex and scary than any previous entry - Potter 7.1 is the franchise's best chapter yet.
Fortunately, the good outweighs the mediocre, so in the end this is one of the better installments in the series.
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- Bellatrix Lestrange: You stupid elf, you could have killed me!
- Dobby: Dobby never meant to kill, Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure.
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- Gellert Grindelwald: Hello Tom, I knew, you would come, one day. But surely you must know I no longer have what you seek.
- Lord Voldemort: Tell me Grindelwald, tell me where it is, tell me who possesses it!
- Gellert Grindelwald: The Elder Wand lies with him, of course... buried in the earth. Dumbledore.
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- Rufus Scrimgeour: These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today.
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- Harry Potter: You think I don't know how this feels?!
- Ron Wesley: No, you don't know how it feels! Your parents are dead! You have no family!
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- Harry Potter: You're not gonna stay at him, are you?
- Hermione Granger: I'm always mad at him.
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- Lord Voldemort: I have seen your heart, and it is mine.
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