They shouldn't have split this into 3 films.

Rating: 4/10 (8 April 2015)

Unfortunately for me, I found that with each film I was enjoying it less and less. The problem I had with this feature is it felt more and more like a generic action film. Me and my friends were guessing every time someone would come in and save the person just in time, we could predict some of the deaths and the plot changes. This however doesn't make it a bad film, just makes it not as enjoyable as we'd have hoped. What made it bad was the messiness of it all, you can tell this film has been segmented into the last film in the way its cut. Smaug was done with immediately and you were off to the next stage, the triple arguments between races. This was incredibly interesting nor was it executed well. Everyone had an issue in their ranks and everyone disliked each other..this is where adding characters (Tauriel) has some negative as I didn't really care about her issues with her kingdom as I haven't had enough time to. Also, Thorin's change in personality due to apparently being in this place was kinda quickly brought on, and just felt like a poor version of watching Frodo's mind twisting due to the ring (which was very nicely done in retrospect). I also couldn't stand every scene that the mono-brow cheap version of Grima Wormtongue was in. I can't believe he got so many scenes and so many lines, completely pointless and irritating. Once you get to the 6th film, the nice lighting and music have ran their course; the fighting was cool and the CGI was mostly good and I enjoyed the new creatures but the plot just didn't have enough. I'm gonna have to give it a lower rating than the last film just because I thought it was messy.
I think it was a poor idea to split this and the first film into 3 films. I think 2 films would've played much nicer and would've made 2 good individual films instead of this partial film.