If you loved LOTR movies you MUST see this movie

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2013)

I you loved the LOTR films you gotta see this one for sure. The visuals are quite breathtaking & the story once again is fantastic. I went in hoping this one would be no where near as good as LOTR movies but damn I was wrong.
As for the main story, well, apart from doing a prelude that reprises the role of Frodo and older Bilbo Baggins, it pretty much stays true to the text - with some audience members anticipating what the characters were going to say next.
A word of warning - some of the battle scenes are very intense, made more so by the 3D and high definition used along with the sound effects. You may want to think long and hard about taking young kids to it.
But for everyone else, particularly the young at heart, this first installment of The Hobbit is a gem.
(note: I was very fortunate to see The Hobbit in Wellington last week. I was there on business and through a friend of a friend I landed a ticket. I was in in Cinema 1 of the Reading Cinemas - one of the two cinemas that premiered the film last Wednesday.)