Marvelous, but........

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2013)

Lord of the rings trilogy was an epic. There is no doubt about it. It had the material to extend it into a 4-5 movie series, which would have been great. Instead, Peter Jackson accomplished a remarkable venture in movie history, by making a trilogy which spans at an average of above 3 hours. When it came to Hobbit, the odds turned against to it. After watching the second part of Hobbit series, the major thing bothered me was it's uneventful presentation. Desolation of Smaug is in no means a bad movie. It has it's moments and assets. It is way superior than the predecessor and entertains as any other movie in the middle-earth saga. Also, it features the best ever hobbit in the movie adaptations of Tolkien's middle-earth. Martin Freeman, as Bilbo Baggins, forwards a superior performance, which is way better than Frodo and Sam. The visual effects are stunning and 3-D effects are also refreshing. But what went wrong with the whole series was, the plot is so simple and it deserved a fast treatment. All these dwarf-quest can be explained in two movies, and it is unnecessarily extended into a trilogy. I am not pretty sure that why I should go back to see the third part, because everything from here is clear as crystal. A dragon who wants to destroy the fisherman village, a man who waits for the dragon with a black arrow, an elf-dwarf love story, an elf who chases an orc who may be will find a pale one too, a forwarding army of orcs, and a wizard in cage. Along with a group of dwarfs and a hobbit. Lets hope There And Back Again will surprise me.....