A Great Addition to the Hobbit Trilogy!

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2014)

This addition to the Hobbit trilogy (directed by Peter Jackson) is amazing, even better than the first, An Unexpected Journey (2012). The action is heavily concentrated in this movie, more than the first. I recommend this movie over the first, but to understand the story you need to watch the first one. From the beginning with Thorin (Richard Armitage) and Gandalf (IanMcKellen) meeting to the scene with Smaug(BenedictCumberbatch) flying to Lake- town, this movie will surely be a favorite of mine forever. I cannot wait until the third movie, There and Back Again, comes out this December (2014). I also recommend the Lord of the Rings trilogy (also directed by Peter Jackson), as well as reading the three Lord of the Rings books and the Hobbit book, all four by J.R.R. Tolkien.