Disappointment for book readers

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2013)

It's not a bad movie, actually a very good action movie. But the thing is that it claims that it is based on J.R.R Tolkien's book. The places and Characters from book are there, but not much else reminds of the book.
The movie start with orcs leaded by Azog hunting Bilbo&Co,so they seek safe spot from Beorn's house, and this is the first disappointment, Beorn is only shown minutes! It would have been such a opportunity for longer scenes. Then comes the scenes in dark magic forest, which is actually good with all terrible spiders and dark magic, but then arrives elves and the movie turns worse again. What is Legolas doing here? And some elf women who is probably from Jackson's fantasy. And while dwarfs are captured she starts to have some ridiculous love fair with one of them.
Bilbo manages to help Thorin&co out their prison, and then starts the most ridiculous scene in the whole movie dwarfs and Bilbo riding barrels in the river, it would have been OK like that. But Jackson added some orcs and elf battles along the river, and the movie turns for a while to an comedy, orcs are 10 times more, but only manages to hurt one dwarf.
Scenes in Laketown is good with the sympathetic Barn and his family who tries to stop Thorin from entering the mountain, but fails to stop them.
The final scenes in the mountains with smaug could have been good, but are now made so long, and little boring.
My opinion is that The Hobbit should have been 1 or at most 2 movies, not destroyed with GGI and other effects, more faithful to the books. But money talks. If you loved Tolkien's book this will be a disappointment to you.