shaky pass

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2013)

this is what happens when you don't focus enough on character development and have a thin storyline. I was so disappointed, but it you never follow up the best trilogy in history with a knockout. highlights of the movie are the new elements, but they are few, meaning you walk out of this movie wishing you had of just rented it (and could stop yawning). Firstly, the relationships just aren't there. Unlike the Trilogy there is no buddy movie start with Mr Froddo and SAM. no slow building up of the troop, and the link from Gandalf to Bilbo is tenuous. And Gandalf is just plonked in the movie without much back story. Its hard to care about the characters if they don't really care that much for each other. This prequel pushes the concept of home hard, but the writer should have spent more time on the characters, and less on assumed knowledge of those involved.