Yea, I thought this was one of the more straight-forward HP movies. It wasn't like Prisoner of Azkaban, you really couldn't follow that plot without reading the novel. There were some disconnects with this screenplay; mainly giving up Snape in the first part reduces a lot of the suspense (not that HP fans wouldn't already know) and removing the last battle makes the whole "sneaking into Hogwarts" questionable. Why would they send a bunch of Death Eaters when they already had Snape to do the deed... and then they run away? Seems like they did the bare minimum on the explanation of horucruxs, but it will much more important in next two movies. It was much darker, which I liked. Hermione and Ron... fairly pointless to the plot besides their teen angst issues. It was, of course, a Harry story - yet he didn't seem to do much himself besides follow Dumbledore. Anyway, it was a decent movie. Besides my nitpicking, I think it set the stage for the final movies.