This fantasy epic of a movie is the final of the Hobbit trilogy which was not the plan at the beginning of the project. After the epic of the Lord of The Rings this movie feels a bit like milking the cow that I keep talking about. I think I may have scored this movie low for the wrong reason but I shall get to that in my adopted version of these review with my blurb in the final section. This movie was released in 2014 and cost a budget of $300m to make which was OK as it went on to make $900m at the box office. It starred Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, and Orlando Bloom. Along with thousands and thousands of CGI orcs and other types of monsters. Shall we move onto the plot, which could be tricky!
This is the third part of the story and begins with the evacuating of Laketown which will now see the wrath of the Dragon Smaug. Due to the Dragon being awoken and the money he was sleeping on disturbed now the town will pay. One of the heroes from the earlier films has been imprisoned (Bard) who breaks out into the empty(ing) town and takes one of the arrow bolt things his son had given to him. If you need a spoiler alert then here is comes... he kills the dragon. This then means that the town is now owed their share of the treasure. The dwarf that have gone through hell to get the castle, in the last two epic movies have now decided that their hard work deserves the whole thing. This leads to the other vested parties arriving to claim what they believe is their's. Hence the five army’s business. There would only be four at this stage as the fifth one of orcs ogres and other nasties is on the way. Some other characters from the Lord of the Rings arrive to try and calm their teams down (humans and elves) against the other dwarfs and the band in the castle. So, there is a huge epic battle which takes quite a long time to ensure the name of the movie is fully understood by the viewer. Ok is that enough of the plot not to spoil the end for you as this film runs for 2 hours and 24 minutes. Me – One Paragraph
Ok why does this have a score of 73 for the epic movie that is the third part of the hobbit trilogy well the reason for the closing sentence of the paragraph above is the problem here. The Lord Of The Rings was a very big book when you realise its three different books welded together to give you a brick sized door stop. The hobbit was a single book and yet the movie was not one or two but three hugely long movies and why I am picking on this one is that the story should have ended possibly and hour before it did. Well at least 40 minutes shorter than it did. I cannot quote you the book as when I attempted to read it as a kid (ok and when I was grown up as well) I couldn’t get through it. I was bored and uninterested in concluded it, I will add that in-between my two attempts I did read the whole of the Lord Of The Rings but I couldn’t get through the whole of the Hobbit. So that maybe more of a reason why the Hobbit was never going to be in my top ten. So, when the director (who have my upmost respect) decides to extend it even further, sorry but I’d check out already. So, this is a really negative review for a very good and epic movie, at that . Contradiction I know but this is an entertaining movie the fight scenes are epic and the visual feel of the movie is also epic and the feel of everything is equally epic and you will watch this and enjoy it but it reminds me of a bloke dressed in black on a stage pretending he wasn’t there as he moved puppets around a stage in the stage show of the Hobbit. I was disappointed with that and my own history of this story should not be allowed to put you off of your enjoyment of this epic movie. Go enjoy!
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