Good movie...

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2019)

...should have been better.
I haven't read the book, binge-watched the whole trilogy, I have seen and read LOTR. I'm flabbergasted.
I did enjoy the trilogy as a whole quite a lot. It was an entertaining action fest set in LOTR-like scenery. I was even treated with quite a few characters which I recognized from LOTR. Story was easy to follow, and not too much shakycam or fast cuts were used. Several of the actors performed well enough, nothing really drew me out of story, untill last installment started unfolding right in front of my eyes. That's when it all came tumbling down.
Now I'm sitting here wondering what went wrong? Was it the tone of the movie? Death and mayhem were treated quite humorously through the whole trilogy, important character deaths were dealt swiftly and efficiently. Movie was as violent as the trilogy as a whole, yet general tone felt almost comedic. Wasn't The Hobbit written for children?
Characters representing good were god-like creatures, able to shrug off any injury except when plot required someone to die. Legolas and his love intrest were an unstoppable force of nature which put Matrix and its ilk to shame. I had to try to come up any excuse why any other characters were even fighting, just hunker down and let immortal terror-twins save the day? Dwarwes were faring just as well, kicking and head-butting armored orcs to death from left and right. I couldn't help wondering why they bothered to carry weapons at all. Rest of the elves, their superficial, greedy and vain king included were mere cannon fodder, as were the village folk. Maybe 10 years old Superman fan had created the script?
Worst offender however for me was the last part of the trilogy. It felt like it was completely cgi. It felt like I was watching the last part of LOTR through a filter that switched the original characters with those taken from The Hobbit-trilogy. So, was this 10 years old Superman fan also some sort of computer geek, and told Jackson he could do all the work for the last part of the trilogy?
Six stars for the reasons mentioned at the beginning of this review. Four stars missing because of the reasons mentioned at the latter part.