Kaddiss Ventorum

I'm doing a rewatch and let me say something: this movie reminds me of the height of teen movies of the Millenial era: badly written love triangles, forces romances, and that weird magical horcrux almost coitus scene. It's very dreary, sad, depressing, so many scenes of our heroes just wondering the woods. Oh I get that they're trying to build up psychologically, but they've had 6 other movies, they're trying too hard at this point. This is peak 'split last books into 2 parts' cinema and this movie puts entire watch parties to sleep. Don't be swayed by these riveting reviews, be glad it's entirely streamable and nobody need waste money on the physical copies or paid for digital. It doesn't age well, and this movie forgets that Harry Potter Universe is Magical and need not be so political. Also Hermione torture scene is also unlikeable. Like holy cow 2024 why do we need our once magical, child friendly, the entire family could watch IP gotta be turned dark and ugly. It's actually ugly. My god for a holiday movie it's depressing and triggering. Skip this one.

Would give a three but that's too MID of me and I'm never Mid. Plot is predictable by ACT 2 of this movie. Would have been better if it wasn't such a cliche about "don't play god." It definitely is a flick from 2014; I feel the writing was Def from the perspective of a male power fantasy and ego. Would have felt better had it not been so heterosexual and exploring sexuality- that's low hanging fruit. Instead of a movie that SHOULD have explored human psychology it went for cheapness of what a man sees in front of him. The ending very much drives home the "my looks are dangled in front of you like a carrot." I love the actors and they did an excellent job. It's very much an Art movie, less a thriller. It's too weird and full of plot holes to be a decent thriller. I'm Bird and this was an Actually Autistic review.