Solid start

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2013)

I certainly wasn't expecting much of The Hobbit's first entry. Having a book be split up in three films and having that fact be the main criticism of many seemed like it would surely lag. To my surprise, I never really found any of the film boring. It just doesn't come close to reaching the film-making heights that any of the Lord of the Rings films reached. If anything however, this first entry does make us care about our new characters, in particular Martin Freeman. If there's one thing this is better in than any of the Lord of the Rings films, it's in its first lead character. Maybe that has more to do with Freeman being better than Wood, but he brings so much to the role. He's the MVP here and you quickly learn to love Bilbo Baggins in this stage. Solid first entry.