Not worth watching

Rating: 2/10 (14 December 2014)

The movie really aggravated me. Enough to make me write my first review on IMDb.
For a frame of reference, let me start by saying that I did enjoy LOTR.
Have you not yet seen The Hobbit 3, just don't !!!!! I simply cannot find a redeeming feature of the film. It's just an unnecessary abundance of establishing shots, excessive CGI and long slow motion close-ups. The close-ups makes everyone understand that the character is thoughtful, very hero-like or the situation is very dangerous. While the accompanying music is good and effective, it is somehow overused, which makes everything even more sickeningly nauseating.
Technically it is not possible write a spoilers for this movie as the plot is virtually non-existent. However, the film is peppered with really bad slapstick goofs, which made me cringe so bad.
The characters are not very likable, which makes the whole outcome unimportant. You feel indifferent about the 7 dwarfs. Bilbo has pretty much been written out of the movie, even though the movie is about him. Legolas is annoying and portrayed as a supernatural matrix-ninja-elf, and it is hard to sit through the movie without wishing him dead. Gandalf is actually likable but the time spent on slow motion closing close-ups is way too much.
I get that the film is not an attempt on documentary, but the special effects in the film are made completely without anything resembling laws of physics. With the Hobbit Peter Jackson suffers from the same disease as George Lucas and Michael Bay, he does not know when to stop with the CGI.
I have seen many bad movies both on television and in the movies, but it's rare that I want to leave the theater. It is also rare that I leave the cinema with a feeling of having wasted my time. Wasting my time is exactly what I did, and even 144 minutes of it. Time that I will never ever get back.
If you are thinking : "I may just catch it on DVD or TV", just don't.
I give it two stars because even though the shots are overwhelmingly cluttered with CGI, some are still quite impressive. Peter Jackson could easily have gotten extra stars had he just included more beautiful shots of landscape without any CGI. He did that well in LOTR.
I can keep on ranting but let this be my last comment: This movie sucks!