No spoilers here just a very general criticism about Hollywood actioners

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2015)

I give this film five out of ten for the excellent CGI for I am a sucker for CGI.
I believe I can pinpoint the problem with the Hobbit as I can some (though not all) of the Steven Spielberg films and nearly all of the George Lucas films - and indeed most of the American actioners since 1914!
If you look up the 'Peril of Pauline' (1914) in Wikipedia you will read an article on the genesis of all modern American actioners, no matter how sophisticated their production values are these days. The Perils of Pauline is one of the primeval actioners. There is no pacing in Perils of Pauline as it is all about how every ten minutes there is an almost insurmountable physical danger or problem for the heroine to solve but that 'in a leap he/she is free'. This appealed to the unsophisticated cinema audiences of the time, which is fair enough when cinema was in its infancy, and they knew that the stunts were real, but sadly still appeals to the unsophisticated cinema audiences of today, worldwide, though they demand, of course, better special effects.
I am not great fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's work - I consider it mythological pastiche - but I intuit he would be horrified at the complete lack of dramatic nous modern cinema directors display in reproducing his work, whether they are American or not.
This legacy, in my humble opinion, which most Hollywood directors have never outgrown, presumably because the films are still so profitable, has disfigured American cinema in this genre for the past century and there doesn't look to be any prospect of it changing in another century.