Seeing the other Harry Potter movies after reading the books, I was not expecting the movie to match the book page for page. However the rearrangement of some key elements (what Malfoy was doing, for instance), I think resulted in a less climactic ending. I, with my slightly lowered expectations, was satisfied with the film. Others that I saw it with (having only watched the movies and not read the books) found the film boring and did not understand the significance of it to the overall storyline. I am raising my expectations for the last (two) films and hope they do the series justice.