Lovers of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien will still have to wait for a proper film of the book.

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2014)

There be spoilers ahead, if you've read the book by JRR Tolkien, and loved it.
But to be brutally honest the real spoiler is Peter Jackson, who seems to have decided that the main plot is:
Get the Bilbo and the Dwarfs from where the eagles left them at the end of film one, and get them to The Lonely Mountain, via Beorn's House, Mirkwood and it's spiders, the elven king's halls, the river, and Lake Town, and have them being chased by Orcs as much as possible, and we need to have Legolas and some elf woman in there, and don't bother too much about anything in the book, think of it as something we can base a computer game on...
If you haven't read the book, or just plain don't care about the book, it's probably a great film.
(Apart from the animation of the thrush, which appears to have been done by someone who has never seen a thrush, or seen a thrush using a stone as an anvil to break open snail shells. Put in the film as an afterthought, quick do some bird hopping around, base it on a bird trying madly to escape from a cage, something like that, frankly who cares? It's significant in the book, but that doesn't matter here and now in this film...)
Lovers of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien will still have to wait for a proper film of the book.
This film is "The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug" - part 2 of an action adventure game in three parts by Peter Jackson, based on the characters in some book that he might have read 40 years ago, and either didn't care about or has no empathy for.
It's well done for what it is, but it's not really anything much like part of the The Hobbit that people know and love.
And Mr Jackson, you should be ashamed of that.