Peter Jackson Had Nothing to do With This Film

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2012)

That can be the only explanation I can think of. Crude jokes, tons of violence, nonstop action, and everyone an action hero - sounds more like a Schwarzenegger film than a Tolkien story. I would love to be able to get inside the director's and producer's heads and see what motivated them to completely disembowel such a wonderful book -- but I'm afraid that what I would find would be far more disgusting than any of the cheap gore shock effects they tried to pawn off in the film as entertainment. This film was terribly disappointing after lots of anticipation. I feel like Jackson's portrayal should be considered an insult to the American public. If the book is a treasure to you, don't tarnish it by viewing this ugly abuse of artistic license. I'm off now to try and erase this mess from my mind by re-reading "The Hobbit".