I found this movie, although long, moved fast. It was pretty suspenseful but I would have appreciated a bit more magic and a little less blades against the throat, after all why would a wizardess need such a muggle form of coersion? I liked that Dumbledore, although gone, was still in the movie if in spirit only...all in all, a good one for Potter fans.
Saw Sherlock Holmes last night and as an aficionado of Conan Doyle’s works and movies 'resembling' them, I say, Good Show, Holmes! Downey surprised me with an excellent portrayal of Doyle’s Holmes, and Law's Watson was not the bumbling idiot of the Nigel Bruce gendre, but as Doyle depicted. As Irene Adler, McAdams is too cutesy to be convincing, although she tries. If you gave me Cate Blanchette, I would have been in Holmes heaven. As the heavy, Mark Strong's Lord Blackwood was convincing, yet seemed to be an imitation of Max Schreck in 'Nosferatu", instead of an English lord gone wrong. But it worked, gave us a night of entertainment and I would definitely see it again. (If only to catch more of the mumbled dialogue between Downey and Law)