Awesome

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2013)

I grew up watching the Lords Of The Ring trilogy and I watched an Unexpected Journey as soon as it was released and then read the book of the Hobbit and loved everything.
The Desolation of Smaug was amazing, the main problem for me with this film was the CGI I watched it in 3D HFR at 48fps instead of standard 24fps and this seemed to heavily effect the CGI, with a lot of it seeming to be quite video game like apart from Smaug himself who was 100% perfectly created and looked real.
I also didn't like how Kili, Fili, Bofur and Oin stay in Laketown as I felt this broke up the party and we kept checking between two locations.
I felt that with parts of the book that seemed to be long and enjoyable there was hardly any time spent on these scenes during the film bits sticking out being Beorns House, and Mirkwood. I felt far to long was spent in Laketown. I also thought that the scenes with Gandalf alone seemed to be quite boring compared to those with the company.
Probably my favourite sequence from the whole film would be the barrel sequence along the river with non stop action full on bad ass moments and a little bit of humour as well.
another thoroughly enjoyable part is Bilbos first encounter with Smaug which is both breath taking and tense.
Just waiting for the 13th December 2014 now....