Its Coo

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2014)

It was cool. I noticed many conveniences like in the other films. There are film rating guide lines and regulations that I know filmmakers must follow in order to keep the rating they desire upheld to their film and that lead me to believe that was why only Orcs were be headed and not humans which seemed dark but the humans weren't which took me out of it a bit. Whenever a human or "light" character would be killed they would be saved or some type of "Dues ex Machina" would happen to keep them alive. In relation to that I noticed some scenes had a ton of effort for conveniences. An example would be the hobbit in barrels knocking/defeating all the like 15 Orcs away while staying alive.
There were times where the movie wanted to be dark, then funny, then slap stick and dark again. But only horrific and brutal with chopping heads of the "bad guys" not the protagonist or "heavenly like" character like Legolas.
Legolas is annoying invincible and flawless and still wants to be Fred Flint stone whenever he can. When Woody from 'Toy Story' declared "falling with style" Legolas perfectly fits that phrase. This guy is untouchable to the pint where I want him to loose some and I shouldn't feel that way. He even took Rey Mysterio's wrestling love using his legs to clamp down on an Orcs neck and swing himself across to take the Orc down. I was like that's WWF ðŸ˜®ðŸ˜‘ lol, I liked it a lil bit. This lead me to enjoy when the Head Orc beat him or "roughed him up some" and made him "bleed his own blood" ha ha haaaaaaaa..... That's goes with other characters too that unreasonably beat and over powered these strong Orcs with brute physical force with thin brittle arms (That lady Elf who had "the hots" for the one elf who almost "took an arrow to the knee" and had Legolas salty and jelly).
There were some funny moments and I liked some of them. I could see the film was about friendship, trust, journey and acceptance while conflicting with greed, race war, and power.
I really liked the boss scene at the end which caught me off guard for a bit. It was recalling good.
Overall I could nit-pick the film a lot and point out a ton of minor things that would make sense for the individual characters motives but I liked it. To counter argue the plausibility of characters not doing what would make sense is to keep the suspense going because if they didn't then the story may not be that compelling or thrilling in tense moments, like when the lead hobbit could've slice the head orcs neck when he was behind him as they were looking at the Eagles. It's all for the sake of Storting telling and I keep that in mind as well.