Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2020)

Like all JRR Tolkien movies Peter Jackson did, this one is a masterpiece. From the music to the casting to the action scenes, just brilliant.
The Hobbit was one of, possibly the first real novel I ever read as a kid, so needless to say, high expectations.
Was this movie 100% true to the book? No. But I do believe it captured the essence of what Tolkien was trying to get across - that sometimes the seemingly ordinary and unimpressive is exactly the opposite of what you think.
Could the casting have been any better for this movie? Ian McKellan perfectly played Gandalf and Martin Freeman was equally perfect as Bilbo, while the dwarves were much harder to materialize in your imagination reading the books were brilliantly brought to life in the movie.
I just can't say enough good about this and all the Peter Jackson movies. So often when they make a movie out of a book I love, they completely ruin it. How wonderful to have a movie meet the expectations.