A good movie, but stretched too thin

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2019)

The Hobbit trilogy of movies had the opposite problem of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In LOTR, the problem was condensing what could easily have been 20 hours of film into 9, so much was skipped or altered. In this trilogy, what should have been 4 hours of film got stretched into 9, and it left me feeling like the studio was milking the cow as much as they could. Nevertheless, if you loved LOTR, you'll want to see these too.