Thorin and Bilbo were the best par of this film

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2014)

I guess the book worms are still heated over the decision of making it into three films, I wish these people would quit crying and Go away, if you don't like Pete's decision don't see it. Now to the review, I will say that I enjoyed this film, the acting was superb especially with Richard Armitage, he should definitely get some kind of recognition for his performance, it reminded me of Borimir. Martin freeman was outstanding also and the others had great moments. The pacing of the film was much better The individual fight sequences were well put together. The film was almost at quality of LOTR, but it failed in some parts and it was all decision making by Peter Jackson, some characters should've not been part of the film and others should've had more screen time. The movie has it's Jar Jar Binks which I think the intention was to provide comic Relief and it failed. If your going to steer away from the book which I have no problem with, than do it right. The CGI was good in some places and in others parts not so much. I had my issues with the CGI in ROTK and I wish he would of shot it in film instead of 4k video. Overall I give this film 8 and it's because of the acting of the main characters that carry the film.