Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Minh18121999 — 16 Nov 2018

Harry Potter has become one of the best franchises out there,Half Blood Prince imo is still the best one,Deathly Hallows is great,and then Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them came out and I am one of those people who found the film disappointing,not an entirely bad movie,but definitely a huge step down from the previous films.

Which is even more disappointing bc The Crimes of Grindelwald will make that first prequel look like a bonafide classic.The Crimes of Grindelwald is a monumentally boring, drawn-out 140 minutes long beautiful looking mess with a bunch of unrelated subplots clashing each other for nearly 2 hrs and easily IMO the worst one in the HP franchise.

The writing stuffs, by JK Rowling,who is a great writer,are unbelievably lackluster,the plot is so jumbled,really messy and unexpectedly boring.Also,The title is "The Crimes of Grindelwald" but he doesn't do much in the movie, except for last 15-20 minutes,where **** really happened,and where the film was actually worth watching.

Depp and his character are also very underutilized. Probably the only really GOOD things about this movie are that last 15 minutes and the opening sequence and once again James Newton Howard score is mind-blowingly great.

Sure the some of the acting or visual effects are solid,but the terrible script and the snailed pacing AND The twist,OMG it is unimaginable,it makes no sense to me and feels out of nowhere,so dumb.This movie to me has started to feel like what the Star Wars prequel had become,just placeholder,they add barely anything.