Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore is a period fantasy, the third installment in the Fantastic Beast series. Dumbledore(Jude Law) constrained by a magic bobbin of fidelity to former love Grindelwald(Mads Mikkelsen) enlists various agents to act against the dark wizard in his coup attempt.
The cast is wonderful, with the great addition in this installment of Jessica Williams, but none of them are well utilized or given much, if any, chance to actually act or be flesh and blood human characters. There is so much unnecessary, convoluted, boring plot the all-star cast is rendered relatively impotent.
Whether it's a lack of vision, the insulation of profound wealth, deserted imagination or what have you producer/screenwriter JK Rowling has been unable to recapture a fraction of the spirit or baseline entertainment value of the Harry Potter books in this series. They are dark, dingy, overly plotted and emotionally underbaked. It is, in essence, simply the story of Voldemort 1.0 which we have already seen. There seems to be no awareness about what is actually good or interesting going on(Newt's relationship with magical creatures, Jacob and Queenies relationship). What we get is a tired, borderline exhausted, retread with very little unique or energetic or even palatable going on.
Plays like a chore for both actor and audience alike.
Currently streaming on HBO Max.
Don't See It.
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