Anti-cinema

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2015)

This is anti-cinema brought to perfection. There is no story here, there are no characters. This is a computer game posing as a film. Still, the point of a computer game is to be able to play it, which is why the film is way less satisfying than even a proper game. I wonder how the director even gave direction to actors who are now completely in a CG environment and interacting with CG characters. How on earth are they supposed to feel or act? The only attempt at 'acting' is poor 'Bilbo', whose quirks are now quite tedious and irritating. He stares a lot in this film, I guess that's supposed to be acting. This final installment is even more story-less and life-less than the previous two. It feels utterly fake and at no point do you even think you might have seen a genuine environment. Monsters in their tens of thousands and countless varieties clash for what seems like forever, without giving the audience the time to emote or even see what is going on. The close-ups of the battle give you absolutely no chance to see who you are supposed to be rooting for. I won't even go into the details about how illogical the battle is or how utterly devoid of storyline this film is. This is nothing but pure anti-cinema: visual gratification that has no artistic ambitions whatsoever, let alone the ambition to emotionally engage the audience or convey some sort of message. No, this is instant gratification for the senses, with absolutely no soul and no humanity. The 'cinema' for the new generation of idiots, that is all it is.