Not good, not bad.

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2015)

I finally went over to see this movie last Sunday, after hearing from friends that it is for sure worth my time. And even though I did enjoy the movie, there were also a lot of things I didn't like at all.
The total overuse of CGI. It was too much. Galadriel looked like an animated cartoon character, the trolls looked very much fake also. / Tauriel. They made a huge mistake 'creating' that character and making her fall in love with a dwarf. It was just too cheesy. Especially at the end. And they even made Thranduil turn soft on her after all she did to him. I would have left her crying over Kili's body instead of saying: Because it was real. Useless and not needed. / Alfrid. Enough said. / What happened to the people of Laketown after the battle? It would have been nice to have seen that. / Bard, what happens to him and his whiny, screaming daughters (seriously, that's all they did, run and scream). / Beorn. You only see a glimpse of him transforming and jumping in the battle that is raging. Shame, since that's a character most of us wanted to see more of. / Did Thranduil get the Jewels of his kin back? Since the necklace was shown in a deleted scene from the first Hobbit movie and being shown in this one when Thorin holds it. I would have loved to see that Thranduil got it back. / The mentioning of Legolas his mother. She wasn't mentioned in the book, so again, they wrote her in for no reason. No mention of Oropher, Thranduils father who died in battle. / The Arkenstone. It's all about that stone, until Bard puts it back in his coat. No mention of it after that. Was it buried with Thorin?
I seriously blame the writers and Peter for messing this up. So many missed chances of this movie being a perfect 10, instead of a 6.