What a let down!

Rating: 2/10 (14 December 2014)

Let me first say that I thought that the first Hobbit movie (An Unexpected Journey) was great, the second movie (The Desolation of Smaug)a bit too stretched but still good. This third part was bad. Just so very, very bad. Why? Maybe it's because of the 144 minutes of total run time, 140 felt like it was just one long, boring battle. Or maybe it's the total lack of intelligent dialog: It lacks humor completely, it is full of empty words and is downright awful. At times I really cringed at the incredibly overstretched, laughable "performances". Or is it the fact that a modern, major (family) movie is without any female contribution of importance? No, I don't count Tauriel's constant, meaningless glaring or Galadriel's tiny, uninspiring part as anything worth mentioning. "Blaah!" is a word that sums it up for me. By all means, go and see it if you'd like to see orchs growling and Thorin looking troubled for two and a half hours.