Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2013)

Me and my friend were dying to see the second movie from this saga, but honestly mostly we were disappointed. I was a cinematography student, so I call it a professional disease to search for errors and mistakes while watching a movie. Most of you might disagree but still I want to share my opinion. There were not that many errors I could put my finger on in the first movie The unexpected journey" that is why I was so anxious to finally see this one. Firstly I will start with everything that was good : The plot was entertaining, had a good level of suspense, I was waiting to see what will happen next. The dragon itself was done beautifully in most scenes it looked simply amazing, so applause for that amazing job. The Lake-town was amazing, the sunset coloring, the texture of the buildings stunning. Now on to the bad.... There were scenes where it was obvious that it would have been a lot easier to film in reality that to create a 3d manipulation or a computer graphic. Most of the fighting or escaping scenes were done horribly. The part with the barrels tragic, it seemed like I was looking at a video game on the big screen that is all. The melted gold looked like tin foil that was put in the oven. In most of the scenes it was better to show less and concentrate on some parts then to make a bad big picture which was done most of the times. The part were the Ork and Legolas ride on the bridge oh my god... I wanted to stand up and leave it was so badly done, a horse was shorter and was running not like it was supposed (based on the anatomy) the bridge looked like it was drawn with photoshop. And the people who were working on this were seriously thought that nobody will point their fingers on that? Honestly it was terrible. I really hope that they will work a lot harder on the upcoming film otherwise what is the point in doing a film based on such an amazing book if you don't put enough effort it to making it a good one.