I Held My Pee For This Movie?

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2014)

In the third and final installment of Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT trilogy, I was expecting a lot; merely because I was a viewer that has faithfully seen the Middle-Earth movies without ever reading a page of the books. By the time the movie was over, I was a little disappointed.
To start things off, I understand that Smaug was not as big of a key-point in BOFA as much as he was in DoS, but to kill him off about twelve minutes into the movie left me feeling a bit discerned. I was hoping for something bigger, I spent almost three hours watching the previous movie, I wanted something big!
The second matter was how the Five Armies were all introduced much similar to a Domino Effect; Person A introduces Person B, Person B introduces Person C, and so forth. The pacing was extremely rushed, it made me feel as though the editors stopped caring (I will admit, after spending almost a decade on six three-hour movies set in New Zealand, I would stop caring too).
Speaking of the pacing, it was all action-packed. There was barely any time to breathe and take in all of the sequences going on. I was extremely pumped for the beginning of the actual Battle of the Five Armies for so long that it turned into a dud.
All in all, I type this review knowing that I sat through two hours and twenty-four minutes wanting to go to the bathroom, only to realize that I could've left the theater for a good twenty minutes without missing anything.