Jackson must answer for his crime!

Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2013)

The ONLY reason I give this movie a 5 is because of the pure and utter AWESOMENESS of Smaug. That, and Gandalf facing off against the orcs and Necromancer in Dol Guldur. Pretty much the rest of the film was rubbish. EPIC FAIL! I figured that Jackson would have matured as a director over the years, but he seems to have gone the other direction. Who is this movie for? I get that it's supposed to have a lighter tone than LOTR, but that's not what he succeeded in creating at all. This movie is an action farce. Jackson has the mind and sense of humour of a six-year-old. The movie is unbelievably INSULTING to audiences, and especially to both Tolkien fans and Jackson fans alike! The scenes that are bad are SO bad that they destroy the fabric of the entire movie. They are stupid, unnecessary, over-the-top, superfluous, and distracting. They remove one from the plot, and they destroy one's suspension of disbelief. I feel hurt. I feel an apology from Jackson is in order. I want him to release not an extended addition, but rather an abridged addition. It's the only one I would buy!