Not worth it unless you are a fan

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2014)

Where do I begin? The Hobbit series has gotten mediocre. The beginning portion really made me angry. Smaug's destruction of Laketown was extremely short. They could have done so much more to this portion of the movie, and made Smaug have more dialogue, but sadly it wasn't. Smaug was literally killed within the first 5 minutes of the film. Not only that, the way he was killed was very ridiculous. Bard uses his son as his bow to kill the dragon. Smaug's death sequence was also laughable. Moving forward, the battle itself was not that bad, but once again, they made Legolas, who isn't even supposed to be in the film to begin with, do ridiculous moves while fighting. I'll be honest though, as much as people hated the love shown between Tauriel and Kili, I actually liked the addition. While I didn't like most of the film, I will tell you, it is definitely a tear jerker. After seeing the deaths of Fili, Kili, and Thorin, I actually cried a bit. Also, the scene of Bilbo and Gandalf returning to the shire could have been much better. At the end of the book, Gandalf and Balin return a few years later to check up on Bilbo, but in this film, it is nonexistent. In conclusion: Is this film worth seeing? It depends. If you are one who liked the previous Hobbit films, then it is about the same as those. But if you are like me, who liked the book better, than I would honestly skip it.