Thanks very much to Evette for writing a very nice in-depth review/synopsis of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I exclusively for us!  You can read the full thing here and a spoiler free part below.

The movie is still an unfinished product, with some half-done CGI and borrowed soundtrack (my friend, who hadn’t heard the announcement, wondered why Harry Potter was playing soundtrack from Batman), but even with these, it was hard not to get drawn into the story and the narrative. Fans definitely have plenty to look forward to when the movie comes out.

For the spoiler-averse, here’s a paragraph that doesn’t give anything away: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows does an interesting job of interspersing the dire with the day-to-day, and I believe they were able to pull this off simply by letting the characters be themselves. There were many things that it successfully brought alive from the book, although purists may not quite agree with some plot lines that were cut here or there in favor of shorter, more movie-friendly methods of story-telling. By itself it feels like a complete story, which some may worry about considering it’s only the first half of a book, and quite an enjoyable one at that, as it stays faithful to the David Yates-directed films that came before it.