Amazing visuals but overall movie a letdown.

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2014)

Turning the book into a trilogy was a big mistake after all.
Despite the stunning visuals and awe-inspiring wide angle shots, the movie is so needlessly dragged it surely has to bore a tolkein fan.
The movie is rife with needless plots, dramatized dialogues, poor acting, painfully boring romance. In short, PJ has desperately tried to put in as much stuff as he could in a 3 hr period.
But when the film falls terribly short in most of the major areas, the visual effects team comes out best than ever before. Alan Lee and John Howe (the illustrators) have done an incredible job in creating the smaug, which is nothing short of a spectacle and perhaps the only saving grace of the film.
To put it short, the movie packs in the best visual effects as compared to the previous lotr/hobbit movies and should be your only reason to watch the movie, everything else is a disaster.