Excellent and surprising addition to the Hobbit Trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2014)

I am not going to delve into a full review of this movie, but let me tell you it is excellent. I am an avid Tolkein fan, and yes it is true there there are changes abroad to his works in this film, but it is so well done that I do not mind. What people need to do is stop comparing The Hobbit movies to the LOTR movies. The books have a different tone from each other so why shouldn't the movies. Jackson does make strides on the DoS to make the movie match the Epic feel of the LOTR but there is no possible way to match that and I think Jackson knows this. The problem is that many of the fans do not. Plain and simple, DoS is brilliant, action packed, and introduces one of the best villains in any of the movies...Smaug.