What is the story of the German vinegar king and his English lover "Fantastic Animals: The Crime of Grindelwald"?

The bizarre Hollywood special effects and darker film style endow Fantastic Animals: The Crime of Grindelwald with a fairly pertinent visual experience, but this cannot cover up the defects of the film itself. As the second film in the Fantastic Animals series, Guilt of Grindelwald has become a more fan-oriented work, with complex characters, the main plot being buried and robbed, which makes the film not open to ordinary audiences.

If you like Harry Potter and are familiar with the magical world built by J.K. Rowling, I believe you will also like this movie. When the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter reappears on the screen, when the fascinating magical world reappears in front of you in a more detailed way, with Hollywood-class perfect special effects, the film is enough for fans who love this series to enter this story. However, if you haven't seen the last movie and are not particularly familiar with this magical world, it is difficult for you to get interested in such a movie in advance, and sometimes you don't even know what the movie is about.

In fact, the problems in the plot of The Crime of Grindelwald are very obvious. In order to better pave the way for the story, the film sacrifices the main line and the center of gravity of the protagonist. Although Eddie Redmayne, the hero in the first movie, is still the main character of this movie, his scenes are greatly weakened compared with the last movie, and those so-called magical animals just become embellishments. The long foreshadowing makes people feel that they don't know what they are doing in the early stage of the film. The out-of-control rhythm of the film is that David Yates, as the director, has no idea how to choose the plot. Even if he started to exert his strength later, it didn't actually play a role in reversing Gan Kun.

From the two films of Fantastic Animals, I believe you will find that what J·K· Rowling did was to hope that Bihali Porter's chess game would be bigger. What she hopes in Fantastic Animals is to reproduce a magical world in her mind with a more solid and meticulous world outlook, rather than just staging a confrontation between good and evil, but this idea makes the series of Fantastic Animals impossible to win at present. The intricate characters and the closely connected plot set a high threshold for the audience to watch the film. If you want to understand movies, you must know all the key figures in this magical world, otherwise what you can perceive is not a complete magical world, but just an animal world with fancy magical animals.

It is not difficult to see from the end that the upcoming Fantastic Animals 3 will be a more exciting movie. However, while the whole movie takes China's magical animals as gimmicks, it only sets the stage for Grindelwald's crimes. The bland "magic" can only be said that the film has neither the ability to organize the plot nor the sincerity to give enough dry goods.

Personal rating: 7