The desolation of smaug: extended edition

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2015)

I just had to go spoilerific here, it is difficult to talk spoiler-free about this particular chapter of the trilogy.
Because the previous film spent three hours around a relatively small amount of events, this movie had to deal with way more. Beorn, Mirkwood spiders, Lake-town, Smaug... and also a lot of the added material from other sources (LOTR novels) like Dol Guldur. This movie has certainly more plot complications than the previous ones, also more expansions to the original "The hobbit" book, but still manages to make no mistakes story- wise. Yet, there are plenty of strange criticisms to this movie.
The Relationship between an elf and a man had already been discussed in LOTR, so I don't see why a relationshp between Tauriel and Kili (Or Fili?) would be a huge problem. Another overused complaint is "Terrible" CGI. I think many viewers haven't seen "Terrible" CGI in their life, the one that looks really terrible and fake. For references, I propose to watch: the creature from 10.000 B.C., certain dinos from the Jurassic Park trilogy, the final train in Back to the future III, Early scenes in The Phantom Menace and... last but not least... oliphants from Lord of the rings: the Two Towers. A conftrontation between those CGI animations and this shows how CGI was well done in this film.
On the expansions in the extended edition: they worked well. The extended editions of the hobbit trilogy provide of a new subplot regarding a ring of the dwarfs, and the inclusion of Thrain in the Dol Guldur section was something I particularly appreciated.
My great problem (And the reason it's not getting a 9) is the ending: it was just bad to walk out of the theater two years ago with a such ending. I think the solution would've been to put the dragon entirely in the last movie. But, afterall, if you have 5 hours and 40 mins, you can watch The battle of the five armies right after the desolation of smaug thus having a proper ending to the story. Or just go and read the book.