Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald Review - 5 Ups & 7 Downs

Downs...

7. Grindelwald Is An Intensely Dull Villain

There were a lot of groans heard around the world when Colin Farrell was needlessly switched-out for Johnny Depp as Grindelwald at the end of the previous movie, and things sadly aren't much better this time around.

Depp's performance is neither entertainingly campy nor quietly intense enough to satisfy. He spends most of his infrequent screen time speaking in a boring, droning monotone and not really doing much until the very end of the third act.

Even then, the character as written is so fundamentally uninteresting, right down to his muddy, forgettable motives, that you'll likely be left hoping Rowling finds a way to magic up a recast.

Seriously, just get a new actor to play Grindelwald in each movie and make a demented experiment out of it, because three more movies of Depp in this role doesn't remotely sound like a good time.