It's not just a film. It's an event!

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2012)

"Home is now behind you. The world is ahead."- Gandalf
Behind every great film, there is a great writer! "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is a precise example of how a story told in pictures, and dialogues,and placed within the context of dramatic structure can become a visual masterpiece. Tolkien never expected his stories to become popular, but by sheer accident a book called The Hobbit, which he had written some years before for his own children, came in 1936 to the attention of Susan Dagnall, an employee of the London publishing firm George Allen & Unwin, who persuaded Tolkien to submit it for publication. However, the book attracted adult readers as well as children, and it became popular enough for the publishers to ask Tolkien to produce a sequel... I remember when I first time was reading "The Hobbit", my sister gave me the book, since that time I remember that warm-and-cosy feeling inside! I was already visualizing those scenes in my head, fairy-tale-kind-of-characters,treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers and, of course, those quiescent green heels and mountains!
Even if you haven't read the book, you will be fascinated by a story: Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarfs led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever ... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... That's the point where "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy can take it's start from.
So, to sum it up, it's not just a movie. It's an event, one of those films you must see to keep up with the conversation. Surprisingly, by today it's the best 3D film I've watched. I can't use another word, but "clean". It was clean 3D film, that makes you feel like home! My ten stars for you and your team, Peter Jackson! Without you, Tolkien's creations would never be known in this world, perhaps ;)