A good movie, but not great.

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2012)

As a Tolkien fanboy, I knew that this wasn't probably going to meet my fanboy expectation. I think Jackson doing it tried to hold true to what the book was, but had to succumb o entertainment value. At times it felt like an anime filler, where bits and pieces were added to the movie in order to make it a bit more interesting. Jackson tried hard to try to make it so that once he has finished filming the three hobbit movies that you can watch them all in order with the LOTR trilogy, and it all flows in order.
Overall could have been cut by half an hour or so. The filming and the cinematics were amazing and from what I had heard about the new frame rate making the CGI easy to spot. I often found myself wondering what was CGI and what was real.
What would any sort of Jackson/Tolkien movie review be without the incredible acting of Andy Serkis as gollum, between him and weta, you ended up feeling like you were part of gollum. It was great