Based on a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien? Not really!

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2014)

The positive stuff at first:
The beginning scenes were really well done. As in the first two movies and the Lord of the Rings, the scenery is truly amazing throughout the whole film, and 3d effects were really thrilling and fascinating. The dragon was very impressive.
Well, that's everything positive. This movie is definitely one for which I want my money back. Expectations were low (since the first two parts weren't half as good as Lord of the Rings), but I still left the theater in disappointment.
I am a big fan of Tolkiens books and loved Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those were great film adaptations, bringing middle earth to life, taking characters serious, telling great stories, respecting the book. Even many dialogs were directly from the novels.
Is the Hobbit trilogy a good movie adaptation? You bet it's not! Fine, making a movie from a book requires some changes, but that's no excuse for everything. This movie is full of very poor additional scenes that add a dimension of inappropriate / unintended comedy throughout the whole film destroying all the magic.
Did "The Hobbit" really need a man dressed as woman permanently adjusting his fake boobs? Legolas killing orcs with Mexican wrestling moves? Troll monsters running their heads against brick walls? In my eyes the film would have been better without all those absurdities.
Aside from the fact that this movie fails to be anything similar to the book, it is so far away from being good entertainment.
The action scenes were way over the top, and thanks to this, boring. For a 2 ½ hour movie, the story is very thin. Same as in the first parts, dialogs seem constructed and fake. What is the point about never- ending monologues about friendship, promises and loyalty?
I think if this novel would have been split into two movies, it could have become really good. Kind of makes me sad that it has been destroyed in such way just to make even more money. Unfortunately it worked; I might not be the only one who went into the third part
So, if you love Tolkiens literature, and hope for a good movie adaption, my suggestion to you is to stay at home and save the money.