Some lovely moments, much more bad ones.

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2017)

Lovely: Martin Freeman created the best hobbit character so far, his subtly ironic, but also warmhearted acting really hits the nail on the head! The scenes at Bag End and the feast scene in Rivendell are funny and lighthearted moments, that offer a rare glimpse of the atmosphere of the original story. The riddle scene with Gollum is probably the best one, just focusing on the characters and the atmosphere, without any gimmicks.
Bad: Everything else. Action, action, action and even more CGI. Feels like a video game, not a movie and it's no coincidence that the few great scenes don't need animated landscapes or explosive action. And it got even worse with part 2 and 3, it seems that the only reason to stretch this story to a trilogy was to build a stage for the special effects (and to milk the cow, of course). This adds nothing! Also the screenplay is rubbish, most of the dialogues feel forced and pathetic. Some of the most iconic scenes from the novel got a sloppy treatment (the trolls for example), while completely pointless stuff was written in (Radagast, or Azog and the whole organised hunt of the Orcs). And how it bores me to death when the characters mooove and speeeaaak slooowlyyy all the time, to pretend some kind of mystery atmosphere. What was a light- and warmhearted adventure/road story originally, became a corny action movie with the aesthetics of a video game blockbuster.