It would have been a brilliant duo-logy

Rating: 2/10 (4 January 2015)

There was absolutely no point to this film. Other reviewers have expressed many of my feelings in a far better way than I ever will be able to express them myself, but the gist of it is: this film was not needed.
Smaug comes and destroys Laketown. Bard escapes prison and uses his son as a bow with which to shoot the black arrow (lolwut?), killing Smaug: end of film? NO. We then have a couple of hours of pointless fighting, followed by the final credits. It was just so awful.
In fact, I don't really want to even talk about it anymore. Long story short: this film was entirely pointless and is almost certainly a cash grab. Such a disappointment.