For the LoL fans: abuse of CG and lore, never ending embark talk and meaningless fight sequences - but yes all beautiful if completely unrealistic

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2013)

Pros: Good music, many beautiful visuals and details, good casting, good acting when the CG is toned down (Gandalf and Galadriel; Bilbo and Gollum etc.), fun variety of locales and monsters.
Cons: Terrible tedious feeling of extended edition rough cut testing your patience unless you're a hardcore geek fan seeking encyclopedic/carnal knowledge of the dwarfs' dirt, many disruption from the immersion i.e. 48fps + transformers physics action scenes, no blood, no wound, all clean like light sabre damage and tons of talk and drivel.
It's starting all to feel like a Star Wars movie. They fight and they're 10 against hundreds but they all in and we know they win hell there's 2 other movies. I can't believe I have to wait 2 freaking years to finish this story when you can read the book in a day. But we get an inside look at goblin, orc and troll psychology and social interactions, just like with all the bugs in Star Wars, it adds depth... soon we see them beasts in context... sleeping, eating, taking a dump, maybe even in real time! Can't wait for cinema to come back to its senses.