Did not disappoint

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2013)

This movie is a film i had been itching to see after the announcement was made that the movie adaptation of the book witch i absolutely loved as a kid was finally coming out after a long break from the Middle earth franchise that we all know and love, this trilogy from the Tolkien epic had some big shoes to fill after the previous trilogy was wildly successful and swooped in a whooping 30 academy award nominations and taking home the win in 17 of them including the 11 awards the third one swept in, and not to forget the close to 3 BILLION dollars at the box office.
This movie was in my opinion a very great movie in all places, unlike many people i actually enjoyed the things that Peter Jackson added into the movie and removed did actually help the story run fluidly and really kept the franchise going and gave it a very good prequel, even though it did not compare to the greatness of the previous trilogy but it did hold up to the expectation of a great film from in a very promising trilogy.
This movie had new technology in film making and was shot in 48 fps, 5k, 3D. This has had very mixed reactions, but personally it did not bother me, i definitely did notice it but i got used to it in a mater of minutes. The 3D in this film was very good and did what in my opinion 3D is made for, to get you more into the film experience and forget that you are watching a 3D film. This film did exactly that, it was very good.
Now for the story and film making. The book is a children's book unlike "The Lord of the Rings" which is targeted for older audiences. This movie did hold up to the childish part of the book but sometimes it did come of as silly and unnecessary for the flow of the story and could really not strike with the die hard fans of the LOTR series. The visual effects were breathtaking, both in goblins, Orcs and especially in Gollum. Somehow the achieved to make this quite ugly creature very beautiful looking. The acting in this movie was in my opinion flawless. The casting was perfect, Martin Freeman did a great job at bringing Bilbo to life and made him a just as good or not even better than Frodo was in the LOTR trilogy. The reprising actors fit right back into character as expected and all the Dwarfs were surprising and brought a real funny spark into the movie.
all and all this movie did not disappoint and lived up to expectation, one of the best movies of 2012.