Evan Spencer

Rather than a movie review, this will be a rebuttal to those who leave negative reviews. Many people will say that this movie is too open-ended, and that there are too many characters and muddied story lines for there to be any actual conclusion or cohesive plot. I’m not one to say that an opinion is wrong, But there is a flaw in this position. This has been promised to be the second of a five movies series. If you see this movie not as a big time, hot shot action film (a sequel to book one), but as a set-up for movies 3, 4 and 5 (a part of a whole), then the elements that are contained within the film become more appropriate. Credence’s search for his past becomes not an epic adventure around Paris but a step-one to the overarching hunt. The meeting of Grindelwalds followers becomes not a big climactic “Nazi/Fascist/Racist” meeting that is meant to be the climax of the series but an opening to his plan. Queenies choice at the end (I am confused at this) is not meant to be a set in stone Queenies-a-bad-guy thing, but instead as we see the rest of the films come out, we can see what she does moving forward. I mention all this becuase some critics will say that the story lines of each of the characters are confusing and too complicated, with no clear conclusion, but I am hear to say that this was done on purpose. What series would there be if we got all the answers in film 2? We should not expect a big climactic story to be at least seminresolved by the second installment. What’s more is that the first movie was simple (when you take in to consideration that this is a movie series about the second most powerful dark wizard). Most of it was a nerdy Newt running around foreign New York with Credence here and there and Ooh look Grindelwalds here! This second installment must establish a conflict and story line for the subsequent films/screenplays to follow up on, that the first movie didn’t establish all too well. Hopefully, this can explain to fans who do not like the Crimes of Grindelwald the reasons behind the amount of story, sub-plot, lack of conclusion and world building that comes with this film, and I hope everyone looks forward to the answers to the questions asked in Fantasyic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. I do, however, ultimately believe that In the subsequent installments to the series, there should be a fine tuning of the plot with distinct main characters. But hey, we never know until we know.