It wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. Although I would have much rather we got one 95 minute children's film based on the book and not another super-long-winded trilogy of 3-hour bore-fests. This is a story for children, right? So why shove in a boring 10 minute conversation about geo-political details taken from the appendices of a Tolkien book or his lost notes or some nonsense? I just want to see a Hobbit on an adventure. Maybe leave scenes without him on the cutting room floor. Put them in special edition blurays for the fanboys. And why in the world is Gandalf cutting off so many creatures' heads in this movie? Wizards should stand there and look regal. It seems as silly as seeing Yoda do karate.

3.0 Stars (out of 5)