This installment of the series is strong in its portrayal of darker moments, the conflict of Harry, and of the uncertainty of Snape's motives. However, it was surprising to see the heavy focus on romantic triangles that were not so much a focus in the novel, though it did seem like there was an emphasis to draw a parallel of commitment in a relationship to the commitments that characters like Snape made to follow through with the plan set forth by Voldemort and executed by the Death Eaters. Additionally, the portryal of a particular death seemed very quick and without emotion, like the directors and producers were expecting to not have to focus on that moment much because they perhaps assumed that the majority of the film's watchers would have already been emotionally influenced through the event by having already read the book. If that was their assumption, that was a mistake. The dark emphasis was good, but glazed over story lines and key events from the book make it a film that serves only to tell the story, but ought not to be remembered as anything legendary by any means.
