Fantastic Beasts: 10 Reasons Why The Crimes Of Grindelwald Is A Massive Disappointment

2. That Ending Reveal Is Just The Worst

The film spends a LOT of time trying to get to the bottom of who Credence Barebones really is, treating this as some sort of driving mystery that fans have been awaiting the answer too for years. The entirety of Grindelwald's plan literally revolves around waiting for Credence to come to him so that he can tell him the truth about his heritage.

From the get-go, it's a strange hook to hang the entire film on but it gets infinitely worse when it is finally resolved in the film's final moments.

Grindelwald gives Credence a wand, turns his little pet bird into a phoenix, and tells him that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore. The sheer idiocy of this twist and the fact that it completely retcons Dumbledore's family history aside, this twist breaks the back of the entire Fantastic Beasts franchise.

To be clear, this means that the Dumbledores were on a ship to the U.S. at the same time the Lestrange family was several years ago, that Leta Lestrange switched her baby step-brother Corvus out for baby Aurelius, took Aurelius to the U.S., put him up for adoption and gave him the new name of Credence, that Credence was adopted by the Barebone family, and then that an in-disguise Grindelwald just-so-happened to come across him several decades later and make him a vital part of his plan in the first film, only to then surprisingly discover he was an Obscurial, only to then discover that he was actually a Dumbledore.

It is absolutely ludicrous and just painful to sit through this reveal, ending the film on the worst note imaginable.