Very Disappointing. A shame to the series.

Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2013)

I never wrote any reviews for the IMDb, but I was so disappointed by The Desolation of Smaug that I had to write one for this. I love all the Tolkien based movies and the Tolkien saga, and so I waited one year to watch this movie. Gladly went to the movies expecting a well made and epic fantasy adventure movie, and I get none of these.
The Desolation of Smaug haves a incredibly terrible script, full of unnecessary scenes that it feels like an insult to the viewer's intelligence. The movie keeps throwing bad action scenes followed by cheesy futile discussions with dramatic scores. Differently from the other movies of the LOTR saga, the action scenes are just so unrealistic and you get that really boring feeling that nothing bad will ever happen with the characters. Not exciting at all. It feels nothing like reading the book. Its just a repetition of the same cheesy thing, over and over again.
It feels just like The Matrix all over again. Actually this movie could be called Hobbit: Reloaded.
The acting is OK, as it would be expected from an action-adventure movie, the story is good (it was taken from the book anyway) and the directing is really good, but it doesn't help how bad the scenes feel.
To summarize it, 50% of the movie is completely useless and boring, and it would do much better without it.