A Middle Earth Epic

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2019)

I thought the first Hobbit was a little too long, number two picked up the pace with story and such, but this one really did it for me. Maybe it's not the best film, but it sure is awesome. Maybe it's because I was younger when it came out and my little brother and I would spend hours rewatching the main battle on the DVD. I just think that for a movie with such grand scale with so much happening during the entirety of the film, densely packed with fantastical action, it is particularly well executed and choreographed. The LOTR franchise does emotion better than these Hobbit films, but I think Peter Jackson succeeded here at creating a good movie for escaping to outlandish lands of grand mythical violence.