Utter garbage.

Rating: 2/10 (13 March 2015)

I never thought it was going to get this bad.

2 Movies building up anticipation on Smaugs terror and then some side character. - I saw the movie last night and I cant even remember his name - offs him in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Smaug destroys a little village and that's it???

Gandalf, the great wizard, spends the whole movie swinging his staff like an old fart.

Thorins egotrip is just ridiculously out of character. He goes from hero to loser and back like it's nothing. Where would he he even get the audacity to claim he has the right to all gold when he did not even kill Smaug himself. And of course you saw it coming from a mile away that just at the right time he would come to his senses.

Why did Bilbo not use the ring to escape the mountain with the Arkenstone instead of risking arrows shot in his back?

-Why did all the dwarfs accept Thorins dictatorial paranoid behaviour like beaten dogs? After all they just went through together?

Once again in the end the eagles fly over and save the day, killing the entire extra army from the north in 5 minutes time, after a battle that lasted two thirds of the movie. HUGE MEGA-YAWN. It's not even properly filmed.

Portraying the eagles to be ready at their disposal really magnifies the original trilogy's weakest point: why did they just not fly into Mordor. The Nazgul would be no match for a squadron of eagles as they are portrayed here.

Flat, soulless, characters. Same goes for the story. felt zero sympathy for nobody. Sorry, Martin Freeman did a cardboard Bilbo. Same goes for the Dwarfs,I could not name half of them.

That stupid elf-dwarf lovestory.

The battle was just incoherent humbug. Which makes the whole movie humbug. Just compare this crap to the intensity of Battle of Helms deep. Jackson should stick to filming great stories, not try sucking them out of his thumb.

Those worms could have bored into the mountain even when Smaug was ruling it.

ZERO Suspense.

The hobbits are shown as greedy little corpse robbers. And then Bilbo lets them walk off with all his stuff as if it's nothing - he really became a true hero.... - And again, they kill Smaug after 10 FRIKKING minutes and the rest is fabricated crap???????

How dare they roll "Story based on the Hobbit" on screen after the movie, when 5% of the movie relates to the book?

ETC ETC ETC ETC

There are 2 good Tolkien movies and those are The Fellowship of the ring and the Two Towers.