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

2. So. Much. Exposition.

The Potter movies admittedly weren't great with handling exposition either, but The Crimes of Grindelwald makes them seem positively subtle and tidy by comparison.

The abundance of expository dialogue in this film is an embarrassment coming from a world-famous writer like Rowling, with countless characters literally stopping the movie to unfurl their histories with excessive flashback sequences.

One especially egregious lore dump in the middle the film vomits a comical amount of Information at the audience, grinding the movie to a halt and sapping the viewer's stamina at the same time.

"Show, don't tell" is a long-held golden rule of screenwriting, but Rowling clearly felt like she had the audience in the palm of her hand regardless. The result is an often painfully chatty film that could really do with shutting its mouth a whole lot more.