Good movie, disappointing storyline.

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2014)

All in all the movie is what we expect to be delivered in a movie from the "lord of the rings universe". and as usual they don't hold back on special effects, even had myself "dodging" an arrow when i saw it in 3D.
all in all a good movie and if you isolate the movie to just a random movie that don't have a book back story or is in the "LOTR universe" I would probably score it as a 8.
However I still think its disappointing that they yet again focus so much on the main characters and try 2 "force" the camera on them as much as possible and leave out big deciding things from the actual books that i know a lot of us who actually have read the book were really looking forward to.
this is tom bombadil all over again.
when u insist on doing the series in 3 movies instead of the first planed 2, please include deciding features.
i really feel like the end of the battle was a smack in the face, if not down right disrespectful to the readers of the actual book.