Disappointing.

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2014)

I was very disappointed with this movie. As usual the production is very good but, my God, did they have to mess with the story so much. Face it, the original story is as good as it gets to start with and just making the movie true to it would result in a great movie. But,nooooo, the fools who wrote and directed this movie had to think THEY could write a better story than what Tolken had written and, for me, ruined it. I was livid when the escape from the Mirkwood Elves lair was messed with and again when they changed the meeting with Smaug. Come on guys...This WAS an excellent story that really could not be improved on and all you did was mess it up. Who Can I Go To To Get My Money Back?