By the final scene, it stinks like a rotten cantaloupe, ripe for 20 minutes, quick to decay

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2013)

The only emotion was boredom. At no time was I lost in the experience, thrilled see what would happen, how the action would unfold. This is worse than the first Hobbit movie, which was mediocre overall, but not nearly as terrible as this mess.
I felt like I was watching someone else play a really bad fantasy video game.
Look Ma! Watch me use technology with one hand tied behind my back to part people from their money by putting together an interminably long movie! The acting was robotic, probably due to the really poor script. The script was possibly written by a 12 year old, so maybe I shouldn't be so critical.
The entire feel was of something cobbled together out of separate pieces, resulting in a creature much like Frankenstein. A film not quite right, it has all the trappings of a much loved classic like LOTR or Star Wars. It falls far short. By the final scene, it stinks like a rotten cantaloupe, ripe for 20 minutes, quick to decay.
The action was simply idiotic in some places - going way too far into the fantastic.
The entire thing went downhill fast after Gandalf's Wizard Bomb in the fight against the Goblin King.
The amazing feats created for battle scenes of LOTR have morphed into super speed Cirque De Soleil - not at all thrilling, just boring.
The costumes were excellent.