A Slight Improvement on An Unexpected Journey

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2014)

The film rattles along and there is much smiting. This is good. There is much that is not good in this over inflated vanity project.
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy was brilliant and memorable, because it brought a classic story to life. It's a long story, and the films were necessarily long too.
It is outrageous of Peter Jackson to think that his own plot lines might improve upon the author's. In fifty years, will people still be talking about how the brilliant Peter Jackson made the Hobbit an even better story, as well as a good film?
When this film trilogy is complete, it will take you longer to watch it than to read the book, which is both daft and self indulgent. Someone should have told the Director that his hubris was ruining the project.