Overall, highly disappointing...

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2014)

At an early age I received The Hobbit for Christmas. I have read The Hobbit numerous times and know it well, the book is jam packed with action and interesting characters and twists. The movies altogether lack luster and drag on endlessly revolving around plots not related to the actual storyline in the novel!
The third movie was almost unbearable for a reader of the novel as there were so many poorly executed links to Sauron and LOTR that it made me cringe. The Hobbit was a riveting read from start to finish, the movies are patchy. The best scenes included animals that didn't feature in the book.