Could have been so much more

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2014)

The movie was OK, but not the epic movie one would expect as the final movie of the trilogy. A lot of CGI, and not the best CGI you could see in a movie with such a budget. The movie felt short and a lot of things were left unexplained, not to mention that the journey back home was cut completely. Compared to the LOTR trilogy it felt simply cheap. As a fan of Tolkien's books I enjoyed the movie but I think that Peter Jackson could have done a better job with The Hobbit trilogy. The love story between the elf and the dwarf was not needed and a lot of other important things were left unexplained, like what happened to the gold or with The Bard. Too much fighting scenes, mediocre CGI and many important characters with very few lines in the movie. Maybe the extended version will be better.