Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Harrynugzz — 20 Nov 2018

I am a decent HP fan. Not the biggest of fan boys but I definitely have a lot of respect for the series and only want to see it presented in the best light. In my opinion this movie while beautifully done lacked in its ability to develop and present a fluid story.

To keep things simple here's what I enjoyed about the film. First this film didn't focus too heavily on the magical creatures like it did in the previous installment. I felt like the first movie relied much to heavily on cute/weird creatures to give a reason of interest to the audience.

This time around a decently clear story line was first presented with showing Grindelwald and him being the bad guy. I loved the sets and visuals as well as the characters who were all fairly interesting.

Ok... so now the bad. It seems like who ever wrote the script said to hell with a coherent story, lets fill this piece of crap up with as much convoluted story material as possible. Even the beautiful scenery and interesting places the characters go cannot distract one from constantly wondering where did such and such come from or how did she or he get here? Why are the characters here? so on and so forth.

. Weird sub plots and characters popping in and out made watching this movie extremely difficult to watch at times. One example is Comma's eye parasite or whatever. The movie clearly eludes to him having some sort of problem with his eye.

...ok cool. As the story goes on we see him mess with it and take eye drops and such. It finally comes down to him passing out randomly and the main characters pull some squigly creature out of his eye.

This part has no meaning to the movie as a whole and I was personally left wondering how did he get the parasite why did they put so much effort in showing us all this information?This is just one example where you're left scratching your head wondering what was the point.

I can name 3 other parts of the film with the same head scratching confusion as this example. In summary just wait till the movie hits red box. Its worth renting not paying a crazy movie ticket price to view.