The Best Thing About This Film Is That It's Over

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2014)

The Hobbit thing has been quite a mystery to me - they all have a very high user rating on IMDb, just as the original Lord Of The Rings films, but if you go look at the first few pages of reviews of each of them here, you will see page after page of only negative reviews, whereas the LOTR films contain only glowing recommendations - almost a mirror image. Why is this? It seems to make no sense. Is the film studio mass-planting votes here? There seems to be no other sensible explanation, because all the Hobbit films are inexcusably awful - everything that was good about the Lord Of The Rings films is what is bad here: the writing, the fight scenes, the CGI, the bits added and cut... Everything that could go wrong with the workings of a film here goes wrong. You would have to go rewatch Sin City to see more obvious use of green-screen. The dwarfs are characterless and annoying. In fact EVERYONE here is characterless and annoying, even the characters you loved in the earlier films, even fair Galadriel. Even Gandalf! You don't and CAN'T care for any of them the whole 9 hours, because there simply IS nothing there to care for. None of their actions seem driven by anything that makes any sense, they are just invisibly dragged from one scene to the next.
On top of that, the new, higher frame-rate literally hurt my eyes - something I've never had happen in a cinema before. What is the use of pointless innovation if all it does is worsen the experience? Empty, meaningless and a terrible tarnishing of the memory of the original trilogy, the very best thing about this film is that it's over.