The best of a worthless, unecessary Trilogy

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2018)

This is the only one of the three films that shows the screenwriters might have read the book. Bilbo, Gandalf, the Shire, the unexpected party are all done well. And then the bottom drops out. How is Azog alive? Azog was killed by the Dwarves decades earlier at the battle of Khazadum, in response for him killing Thror. Where is Beorn? For every one good scene, there are five stupid things in this insult of a movie. How does one make a 300 page book into 9 hours of movie? Useless filler that's how. But this was the truest to the book, unlike its followups.