Another shoot-em-up summer movie

Rating: 4/10 (9 January 2015)

That's a charitable 4 - for effort. They tried. The special effects are quite good.
This one is loosely based on characters created by Tolkien, but they're put into situations way outside his story line.
Other reviewers have noted the goofs.
Ryan Gage's Alfrid was probably put in to provide comic relief, but I believe your comic relief character should have some likability. Alfrid is about as likable as one of the lesser orcs.
The Thorin/Tauriel sub-story was unconvincing at best. Did it never occur to the writers that a male/female relationship could be a friendship at the same level as Bilbo's and Thorin's?
Most of us who grew up with the early Gene Autry/Roy Rogers westerns will recognize the eagles as the cavalry charging in over the hill to save the day. What were they waiting for?
Spoiler!!!
The coincidence of Bilbo arriving back at his home in the Shire, just as his stuff is being auctioned off, stretches belief to the breaking point.