Boring and dragged out like a bad Wagner opera

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2012)

This movie could have been cut by an hour. It's just way too dragged out. Every scene is three times as long as it should be and this results in breaking up the narrative and losing any dramatic build up. That is the problem when there is a short novel split into 3 movies - there just isn't enough to plot last 9 hours! The monsters were repetitive: trolls orcs and whatever! There is so much inconsequential dialog. That dinner at Bilbo's house was interminable. And the scene with gollum just went on and on with so many riddles. The only exciting part was the fight at the end with the tree. But it wasn't worth the 2 and a half hours before that.
The scenery is beautiful but the unrealistically deep valleys and caves feel fake.
Don't bother unless you are a die hard fan or you enjoy a bunch of ugly middle aged men running around with a variety of hard to understand British accents.