Finally got around to this.

It's fun and Redmayne shines, but only whEN IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT THE GODDAMN FANTASTIC BEASTS. Literally did not give a shit about anything else and the film doesn't give you a reason to.

Otherwise, it's a 2-hour long build up to a cliffhanger with a lot of Yatesian brooding and dark cinematography. At least it was warranted in HP because it reflected how each film/book got darker than the last. In this it is unnecessary and boring.

Final act is just a mess of serious stares and CGI.

Should have just been 1 or two films without all this Grindelwald and Credence nonsense.

I thought Depp was really terrible in this, except for his .

Law is promising as Dumbledore, but they need to give him better material.

They could have gone all-out and had some messy set piece doused in CGI, but I admired the simplicity of the setting. It was the most focused part of the movie. The rest of the movie felt like a cliff notes version of a 800 page book that JK Rowling was writing.

Depp was pretty good in this. One of the better aspects of this movie

cant muster any kind of energy or to even download this