Really good, but it lacks the depth it needed

Rating: 6/10 (12 December 2013)

To start out: I really liked this movie and didn't actually have a problem with the Tauriel character that is introduced (she is not in the book). Some of the fighting scenes are pure awesomeness in that way that they are original and (contrary to many other action scenes in other movies) do follow the law of physics, or bend them just slightly. The script is actually good but it needs character development, I would've given this movie a 9/10 if it had taken away many of the action scenes and replaced them with dialogue instead.
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OK, so I liked the character Tauriel, BUT, she was give a bit too much screen time. I liked the character Legolas in LotR a lot too, but it was a story about humans and hobbits, not elves, and therefore he was a minor character (not minor minor, but not as important as Gandalf or Aragorn) and they held it like that. As they should have.
But in these films it is a story about a hobbit and dwarfs. And yet we are given A LOT of action scenes with elves fighting orcs. And it feels unnecessary to have that many. And the scene when Tauriel says that Kili is tall, even for a dwarf, we (the audience) are told directly that they will develop some sort of romance. I really hated that scene, because it would have been better to skip it and then when she walked outside the cells she would have the conversation about the stone anyway and THEN start to care for him.
But what really angers me a lot is: Why was there only like 3 minutes screen time with beorn?!
This character has been on posters, he is important in the book, and it would be a good opportunity fo the audience to get a break in an action packed film so that the action will be better when we see it later. Also the reason that he likes these dwarfs and Gandalf is because he hates orcs and he has heard tales (from bird or something I don't remember atm) that they killed the great goblin. Seriosuly, skip some action and just have that small conversation about these things. The Mirkwood. The waiting with the barrels, that it actually will take some time for the dwarfs to escape the elven king.
Seriously, I really liked the action, but it's just too much. it can never reach full potential if we don't care about the characters, and we care about them if we know and understand them better. And to do that we need more dialogue. Cut away like 10-15 minutes with action and replace it with character development. It is possible.
But still, thanks anyways Peter Jackson.