Battle of the Rushed Post - a Michael Bay film

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2014)

Sadly all the 'epic' was left on the cutting room floor. Somehow all the cheese, bad lines and bad make up close ups all made it in.
Everything was rushed or non existent that pertained to character development. And without connection to the characters a movie feels b grade. Regardless of the immense budget, actors quality, next level cgi and advertising.
Three movies should have been two. First film ending with Bard stating they need to seek refuge in the mountain after lake town destroyed. Second film focused on fattening and tying off the characters stories. Not two hours of fighting and ten minutes of storyline hamyness, cringing and head shaking at the end. And almost no worthwhile hobbit or dwarf dialogue.
It's still a spectacle of a film. But I don't understand any of the decisions to cheese it instead of this being a gritty powerful opus.