A horrible way to crank out more cash.

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2015)

This CGI-fest is SO far off the mark it makes you hope that someone with far more respect for the source material one day does a reboot. A beautiful book turned into an awful CGI war video game. Characters added to the whole set of three certainly subtract from the film, but add the needed length to stretch it to three films to generate piles more cash. It feels like grave-robbing. I love that another reviewer pointed out how this goofy romance between the "Jackson was smitten so he created an elf for Evangiline" Tauriel and the too-human-looking Fili robs the Legolas/Gimli relationship of the uniqueness and depth Tolkien put into it. The 3 films are rife with this trash. I guess if you're Tolkien fan you hate it. CGI loving gamers who have never read the books might like it.
I cry for Tolkien.
As I do for Tom Bombadil, Peter Jackson's "opposite". As Tolkien himself pointed out about Tom "I kept him in, and as he was, because he represents certain things otherwise left out". Jackson is the man representing certain things put in that should otherwise be far better left out.