Tolkien, as seen through CGI

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2013)

There is nothing wrong with CGI. There is nothing wrong with action movies, even when they are written as epic fantasy. Yet, it seems that this "episode" of Hobbit aims at the audience that isn't very demanding.
If you enjoy endless action-packed sequences with a lot of special effects, this might be a movie for you. But if you want to see Tolkien's book brought to screen, even the 1977 animation movie is better choice than Peter Jackson's effort.
Essentially, this movie can be described as Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) that meets Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy (2004) in a world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings trilogy set the bar high, but this movie didn't even try to reach it...