FILM: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
STARS: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston
WHERE: Marcus Des Peres 14
PREMISE: Continuing saga of Newt Scamander as he tries to reconnect with his friends from America but discovers that Grindelwald is still alive but has escaped imprisonment. The Ministry of Magic want Newt to find Grindelwald and stop him from luring Credence Barebone to his side.
HE SAID: Not interested. Enjoy.
SHE SAID: Visually a stunning film with endearing characters, but the story is meandering and inconclusive. I don’t like it when films really can’t stand on their own, but only seem like a precursor to something else. This seems to be the Empire Strikes Back of the wizarding world but with even less of a full story than Empire. It seems like they could have streamlined this film and had what was at the end in the middle and had a more definitive ending to the film even if it still leaves some things unresolved for later films. SCORE: 6 (On a scale of 1 to 10)
Middle-aged @ the Movies 