The final installment of the Harry Potter franchise is coming to Hong Kong on Thursday. But it's only the beginning of the end: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1' is just the first part of the seventh and final film in the series. Part 2 will be released in 3D next year.

Directed by David Yates, the film has received generally favorablereviews. Here's a review roundup, thanks to WSJ Speakeasy:

* 'The book dictates a vast assortment of details, interludes and ancillary characters; that's the nature, and the pleasure, of literarydensity. Their presence in the movie, which was adapted by Steve Kloves, may well be obligatory, as well as gratifying to the book's fans, but they take an awful toll on narrative momentum