What is the point??

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2013)

I'll keep this brief.
Why is it only 5/10. Smaug is fantastic after all. The effects superb. Cinematography, direction etc. Yep all great. A little serious at times, so Martin Freeman does well to add some light relief.
But the reason why this cannot score over 5/10 is the utter pointlessness of the film. The Hobbit is a lovely children's book, one of my favorites and should have only been one film, maximum two. I'm afraid it is a money-making, selling-out exercise of which you are being laughed at. I was infuriated when I saw Smaug fly off to Lake Town and the film just ended- bloody finish it!!!! If Peter Jackson knew what that it was to be carved into three films would he have agreed? Not impressed.