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Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2012)

I just watched the movie in the cinema and as i had feared i was terribly disappointed. I think "The Hobbit" is one more movie added to the long string of "big budget spectacular movies" that could have been so much more. The whole movie revolves around a group who has to get from A to B, much similar to the concept in LOTR. Unfortunately the movie fails so bad. There is no large wars and way too few fights, and the fights that actually occur fails to really catch your interest because there is a lack of connection between the audience and the main characters and a lack of "hate" against the bad guys. In my opinion, a movie like this has to really make the audience connect with the main characters so that you are cheering for them every step of the way through all the obstacles on their journey, and this is even more important if you don't have any large wars or large spectacular fight scenes to keep hold of the audience. All this, or rather the lack of it, resulted in me sitting for 2 and a half hours bored to death by looking at 12 dwarfs, a wizard and a hobbit just traveling... Sure there is a few fight scenes and a few vaguely interesting encounters but absolutely nothing spectacular and at no point during the movie are you really sitting on the edge of your seat curling your toes and completely taken away by the courage and power of the heroes.. And to be honest i think this has become a sad trend in the big budget Hollywood movies.. Movies that could have been so much more than they were.. If i were to sum up this movie in 1 word it would be: Indifferent. That word fits so perfect to this movie.. It is not total crap and it is absolutely not good either.. It is watchable due to the beautiful scenery as we know it from LOTR and thats it!