-READ THIS BEFORE WATCHING- An honest review

Rating: 4/10 (13 December 2013)

Well, what can I say about the hobbit 2 desolation of smaug. It was in parts the best and in parts the worst movie I have seen this year. Peter Jackson got totally carried away with rewriting the hobbit source material but mostly not in a good way. I actually liked that they fleshed out the hobbit that much and made the story bigger and in a way funnier. The first hobbit was really really good at rewriting the source material and making it fresh. As much as I love the hobbit book, I also loved Peter Jacksons first movie. So what went wrong? I am not going to spoil you so I can't get into much detail but I try to explain. 1. This movie has really really really bad pacing. The beginning is really strangely rushed but I could have accepted that. A fast past action flick. The last scene however lasted over 1 hour and was painfully long and made you wonder why the beginning was so rushed.
2. REALLY bad ending Only a bad TV series would get away with that. Tune in next time kids, when the story gets interesting.
3. Awful fight scenes I am actually a fan of Peter Jacksons slapstick fight scenes in the Lotr and Hobbit 1 but many of these fights were just annoying cuts and close ups and the last fight lasted far too long had BAD CGI and was just boring to watch. The ending of the last fight scene however made me laugh sooo hard. It was ridiculous, rotten to the core, illogical and just breathtakingly stupid. It was without a doubt the most nonsensical fight scene I have ever saw. WHY oh why Peter Jackson. This is not loneytunes.
4. Everything falls apart in the last 1 hour or so Maybe I haven't stressed enough HOW bad the last hour was. The whole audience who where laughing and enjoying this flick (Like me) became silent, people first stood up to go to the bathroom and people started talking and complaining. As stated above even the looks of the film fell apart. Despite being one of the best looking 3D movies in the end the CGI was completely GARBAGE. It looked like Star wars episode 1 maybe even worse. It really was an unpleasant experience. Every 1 minute there was a AND NOW SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN- Close up on someone face + Epic music moment BUT NOTHING HAPPENED. People where doing impossible things (REALLY impossible, even for fantasy standards- Legolas from Return to the kings would have laughed at this and said impossible) and at same point it really resembled more a video game than an actual movie. 1 hour wasted maybe just to get a higher ticket price and even worse cutting the beginning of the film which would have been much better.
So what was the good part? 1. It looked mostly great! You felt like you where there. It was just breathtaking in the first hours.
2.The middle of the film was AWESOME. It had great pacing, great original writing and just great scenes and dialogues. I loved it. Peter Jackson did not rely too much on his Lotr formula but on the first hobbit formula of action, comedy and adventure combined and it was great. The best thing I have seen in a long time. Really pleasant. He even made fun of his over the top action scenes in a particularly silly fight scenes where suddenly everything escalated to comedically first class material. I laughed so hard. It was great.
Is this movie worth watching? If you love this franchise you are gonna see it anyway, aren't you? But don't get your hopes to high. It is the worst middle earth flick Jackson has made and all because of the STUPID, boring and ugly last hour. It really gave people a bad feeling walking out of this movie and that is not a good sign. If you are a casual viewer maybe you skip to hobbit 3...
A little comment of the positive score this movie has (At least the at the moment I write this review). I watched it in a movie theater with maybe just 80 other guys. It is a really pretty theater and when you go out everyone waits in the same lobby so I was listening to people talk, talked to my friends and even asked other people. THEY ALL thought the last hour was either horrible or not entertaining and nobody though this movie was superior to the first hobbit. I just wonder what all these other reviewers have watched?