Up to lord of the rings standards !!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2013)

The Hobbit: the Desolation of smaug was exactly what this trilogy needed and peter Jackson did an excellent job!
The first hobbit movie to me was a great movie but didn't have the intensity like the lord of the rings first movie did and it didn't feel like much was on the line but while watching the Desolation of Smaug i once again felt the amount of pressure and intensity like i did when first watching the lord of the Rings
this movie straight away is filed with action and shows us middle earth like never before, each character does get there own special moment in this movie which i think is great and martin freeman really is the best possible choice for Bilbo.
The things i thought might go wrong for the movie like having legolas in it worked perfect and i didn't know how peter was gonna do smaug but what he did was amazing
SMAUG no doubt earned himself a spot as one of the greatest villains of all time along with villains like the joker,Darth vader etc.. he really was terrifying and the scenes with smaug are some of the most intense moments in the hobbit or lord of the rings... Benedict cumberbatch voice for smaug is as memorable as andy's gollum voice...
if you are worried about this not having as much action as lord of the rings then fear not because this movie has one of the greastest action scenes i have seen this year and is filled from start to finish with amazing action scenes
Thorin and all the dawfs are still as amazing as they were in the first hobbit film and Gandalf the Grey is one serious bad ass as usual
the only problem i have with the hobbit is some of the cgi!! i much rather the orcs to be real people dressed up instead of cgi. i find it lazy and doesn't feel as real but other then that i have no problem with the film and enjoyed it..
a must watch film and defiantly one of the best of the year