Superb technique

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2012)

I watched the movie in HFR 3D. And that was pretty awesome. The picture quality is outstanding. Full of details, no picture noise. The 3D effect was without flaws. The only drawback is a video look (aka soap effect) in fast moving scenes. That looks pretty strange, but the overall quality is well worth it.
The movie itself is a typical Jackson film. Every single piece of the story is explicitly depicted and displayed in detail. Except for the battle scenes there is hardly any change in speed of narration. One would expect unimportant parts shortened and relevant parts highlighted. Yet that is not a virtue of the director.
So the film has its lengths, well a lot of lengths to my mind. 2 hrs. would have been well enough.
The battle scenes are huge, and hectic. A little less would have been more appropriate, for my taste.
So I think it is an OK-movie, and a technical milestone.