Vast improvement on the first Hobbit movie

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2014)

Now I am sat in quite a bias position here, as ever since I was in my early teens I would be first in line at the ticket office for any of the Lord Of The Rings movie's. Now I am in my twenties its been the same with the first Hobbit movie and now this one. I am what you would call a big fan of the Tolkien book's movie franchise's. Im just a sucker for an elf to be honest.
I think this movie is a little more grown up then the first Hobbit movie. The first was a little slow getting into the movie but this one throws you straight into the action. Its a big imrovement on the first movie. Better characters are introduced as the first movie's characters lacked depth this one makes up for it. Overall its still dragged out to long and you still come away with the feeling that they should of cut the trilogy down to just the one movie. Legolas is back, looking much more sinister then I remember him being in the Lord of the rings movies, Gimli is even mentioned. But what disappointed me most was no gollum. Benedict Cumberbatch voices Smaug the dragon and thats probably the highlight of the movie. As a piece of cinema its not the best, no where near the heights of The Lord Of The Rings but much better then the first Hobbit movie.
Martin Freeman puts in a comfortable performance.
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