A new beginning

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2018)

I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies and was looking forward to the next set of Middle-earth films. I never gave up hope that there'd be more Tolkien films after Return of the King, though King Kong was the next project after that very aforementioned film and this was the end result. I don't claim An Unexpected Journey is as good or even better than the original trilogy but it's still better than The Phantom Menace of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. More plot, more fun characters, and more action. And some familiar faces. More dwarves too. I'd read the Hobbit years ago and I remembered some parts but that didn't hinder my enjoyment of this very film. More good visuals like its predecessors.