"One More (Unneccesary) Time"

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2014)

When it comes to any franchising crowning film, usually the director, cast, and screenwriters try to give it their all to make it the best entry yet to go out with a bang (i.e. LOTR, Harry Potter, etc.) However, in The Hobbit: The Final Entry Into The Ridiculously Drawn Out Franchise, it seems as though everyone involved in the film threw together about two weeks before it was released. I have never seen a film with such esteemed reputation be so lazily made in my entire life. Everything in this movie just seemed half-a**ed. The battle scenes, including other characters/set pieces, are so heavily loaded with some of the worst CGI I have ever seen that I thought I was watching a poorly made video game. You would think that a movie with such a huge budget would look more real than an animated movie itself. Speaking of the battle scenes, there are so many fights in the film that seem to do absolutely everything in their power to defy the laws of physics, each scene making me laugh harder at the ridiculousness of the action taking place (guys, I'm serious, the action was almost as bad as Transformers). These scenes also try so hard to attempt to build tension, but around the tenth scene of a protagonist in a fight with a cartoon orc attempting to seem so climatic when we obviously know the outcome, the movie starts to get boring, proving itself to just be filler for Warner Brothers to get another $300 million in their pockets. But what is probably the worst thing about the movie is that the plot is driven by offensively stupid decisions made my brainless, underdeveloped characters. Half of the battles were not even necessary, because they were solely caused by idiotic characters with petty desires. Yes, I understand that greed is a big overall theme, but when we are repeatedly blatantly beaten over the head with it, it becomes very tiring, and the characters just start to seem one dimensioned and predictable. Overall, The Hobbit TBOTFA is just a huge disappointment, and we deserved much more for the final entry in one of the best franchises of all time. Grade: D+