....."It feels thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread..!!"

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2014)

This trilogy as a whole does not even reach half the level of the LOTR one. Again, Hollywood's greed took over and gave us an unnecessary three films out of one book. And the result is a long series of 'joyride' scenes, a couple of fights, and some isolated conversation scenes to form an incoherent trilogy that will not stand the test of time very well.
This last Hobbit chapter is filled with characters that you won't feel anything towards by the end. A love story that never was written by Tolkien. And a movie title war that doesn't feel half as intense as Helms Deep. Funnily enough. Aside from Bilbo. Alfred, who is the most pointless character in the film, was the most realized.
To me. This is not a movie trilogy. It's more of a game trilogy with Peter hogging the joystick to himself! You feel excited watching people play the first level. Get bored by the second. Then fell asleep by the third level. And in this trilogy, we the audience are mere watchers. We don't feel like we're apart of this joyride like we did in LOTR. In a sense, I see this trilogy as a slightly higher quality Transformers movie. You're watching for the adrenaline roller coaster, nothing else.
Two films would have sufficed Mr. Jackson. But I guess Bilbo(PJ) was corrupted by the ring after all. And greed has indeed reached the Shire(NZ).