It is pretty hard for a movie based on magic to excite me but this blew me off my socks !!
The movie is based on a J.K. Rowling book that features a time period 70yrs before Harry Potter was born.
Eddie Redmayne comes along with yet another great performance. Being a great fan of the guy his performance was straight up in the league of Theory of Everything and The Danish Girl.
He acts as Newt, an English magician whose sole purpose is roaming the earth and saving magical creatures from extinction and predation by human beings. A role that sees him set foot in New York. A series of weird events sets him on the centre stage of a catastrophe that threatens to start a war between magicians and muggles(non-magicians)
Jonny Depp also features towards the end.
I was quite skeptical when JK Rowling was promoted to be the screen writer of the 5 movie series as it was even based on her book. I thought she would fail at replicating the success Harry Potter enjoyed but this feels even more mature and better acted. Well of course there is the fact that it features A list mature celebrities instead of kids but nonetheless it is an extremely good watch