Peter Jackson: Literary Genius

Rating: 4/10 (7 March 2015)

To make myself feel better and to vent my now overmastering irritation with this director I shall offer my august reviewal of this movie, yes I know that is not a word. If you are reading this you should stop immediately as I am not a trained critic and I am horrible, ill tempered and unjust in all my actions. Actually those two are contradictory, maybe continue on.
(Very minor spoilers relating to scene progression)
As everything has already been said, I will share only my outrage with the first 10 minutes of the film.
The movie begins strangely, directly into a battle with no introduction whatsoever. Minutes later the battle ends, awkwardly with an injection of overly emotional interaction between two characters that have been on screen for less than 5 minutes. A generic relationship is applied which apparently is supposed to supply all the depth we need to be immensely moved. Directly after the battle we are escorted to three different settings in less than 60 seconds, none of which follow the storyline of the book - our only reference to understanding this film even though it is the third in the series. After being blasted through a roller coaster of cut scenes, or three separate roller coasters, we return to the aftermath of the initial battle and are immediately introduced to an annoying, artificially hideoufied gentleman (like Wormtongue, a fine character in a fine movie) who is screaming and rolling around in shallow water for no discernible reason. Continuing from there we come to another very emotional scene between two characters who, while being main players, have yet to be re-introduced into this continuing story. There follows an emotional parting involving further main characters who have been on screen for less than 30 seconds which is not granted even an attempt at setup or context. At this point I left the film to write this review. I will continue to watch it because I know there will be magic, explosions, etcetera and I'm hoping the epic, overused music will be at a minimum or will at least be overpowered by epic, overused sound effects.
I've said enough. Peter Jackson is masquerading as a hyper-inflate and is horrible now at what he is doing. I suppose it can be argued that the relative circus of screenwriters let him down but no, it cannot be argued this way. Please, somebody, force him to create his own material before he butchers to break-even another legendary literary plot line.