Expectations for this third installment just got ruined ...

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2014)

Keeping lot of expectation for this third installment just got ruined. Maybe following the book and movie religiously would have helped instead of casually watching the movie and complaining about it.
Over that this movie adaptation contains love story between Kili and Tauriel which is just invented for this movie adaptation and then their love gets finished just for sake of terminating the Tauriel character. Most of the scenes are slow unnecessarily and some scenes are fast like "when you blink you miss it"!
The story is written right but this movie is not done well. Graphics looks cheap in some cases. The Great Eagles swooping in first movie was impressive but in this movie it don't make much impact for viewers.
And then the movie in the end just tries to conclude as a bridge to watch "The Lord of the Rings" series. Also I have not yet watched "The Lord of the Rings" series yet so it will be difficult to get the meaning of those conclusions.