I love it but really 3 movies for a 300 page novel

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2012)

I am a big fan of Tolkien's work and hence with all those visual effects the movie was quite fantastic. However, what I disliked about it is the overall concept of covering it in 3 movies. It was a entirely wise decision with LOTR series but here I sense these people have gone a bit greedy and 3 is a far fetched number. That also explained all that dragging around in the initial phases of the movie which could have been avoided if they'd have restricted themselves to 1/2 parts only. Having said that, it still was a wonderful watch with all those effects and fantastic to see trolls, wargs, great eagles and specially big mountains fighting in 3D effects.