Its wasn't all bad... Could have been a lot better though

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2012)

OK, not a complete miss but it was not what I was led to believe it was going to be. All day yesterday I was reading reviews on here praising this film as being one of the best of this year, in my opinion this was leaning more toward the worst(well not worst more like not living up to expectations). This is far from being on the same level as the LOR trilogy which I am a huge fan of. Im not sure if Peter Jackson was aiming at a younger target audience for this film but thats how I felt the entire 169 min. If I were him I would have shorten this film up and spiced it up with more realistic violence and lost the comic feel to all of the fighting. Just wait till you see the goblin king "fight" SMH. But like I said being a fan I had to see it but I was expecting more...