Fantastic Beasts 3: What Went Wrong?

Director David Yates has been with the wizarding world since 2007's Order of the Phoenix, and though he has made the best movie in the franchise with 2011's Deathly Hallows: Part 2, he's now also made its worst.

One of the major criticisms levelled at The Secrets of Dumbledore and The Crimes of Grindelwald (and, to a lesser degree, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) is that they lack the magic and wonder the Potter movies captured so well, and that's partly down to Yates' bland, lifeless vision of this world.

Though his cold and desaturated visual style worked well as Harry's story got darker towards the end, this was offset with some major pops of colour, plenty of exciting action, and lots of lovable characters. But there's none of that here, and even the major wizarding duels you'd expect to be exciting are unimaginatively executed and visually unstimulating. Compare Dumbledore and Credence throwing rocks at each other in the street to Dumbledore and Voldemort conjuring fire demons and bright curses in Order of the Phoenix - the difference is night and day.

Combine Yates' lacklustre directing with some of the other points we've mentioned (poor writing, uninteresting characters, dull story) and Fantastic Beasts 3 just wasn't a good movie, which is obviously another major reason why it hasn't done well.

At the end of the day, winning cures everything - if the movie was awesome, it would've made more money. It would've got better reviews. The behind-the-scenes drama would be less of a drag. And we probably wouldn't be writing this article!