Boring and overbearing

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2014)

This movie is just battle after battle with very much little in between, no interesting dialogue, the script is so transparent you will fall asleep. Gone are the surprise, anguish, and humor the trilogy had. So much graphics yet it feels colorless. There's no character growth; Bilbo's once charming character is not in the center of the movie anymore. What exactly did he do here? Feels like he was replaceable. Even Gandalf was just kind of THERE and that's it, being a caricature of himself but not doing or saying much.
In a more general critique, what makes this movie overbearing might simply be the fact that it's not an adventure anymore. There was no journey to *anywhere*! And maybe because of that the plot devices were poor to non-existent. The only interesting conflict was with Thorin and his mental state, but the writers seemed to not know what they wanted out of it. BLAH! To sum it up, this movie is comprised of 70% violence that becomes pornographic and redundant very fast, and 30% poor dialogues that bury you with exactly the cliché's and tired musical cues you expect. We should be glad LOTR was not handled like this. Just a bad movie. Not interesting.