No I'm not being harsh, this movie actually feels like a rehash with the same CGI battles over and over, nothing new, its been done to death by Jackson and co now, battle fatigue much! The CGI in question looks pretty bad too, I kid you not, its like the quality is basically about on par with the original trilogy or worse! (LoTR's trilogy finished in 2003). Well first off we've all seen the LoTR's trilogy and the previous two Hobbit movies, so basically we've all seen this before. Lets get gritty, the battles, that's what its all about, how good are these battle sequences. There is virtually no plot here, its quite simply.everybody wants the gold.fight!! What little else you see is basically padding and invented for the purpose of the movie. There is already an army of men led by Bard, there are a couple of orc armies marching to the mountain, and a dwarf army arrives on the scene too. Unfortunately that is exactly what makes up the rest of this movie, an elf army turns up to help the people of Laketown and retrieve a precious elven item from the mountain.
What's more, this entire sequence is the climax of the original book, yet here its all done and dusted before the opening credits.įrom this point onwards its merely a case of Jackson moving the various chess pieces into position for the long drawn out CGI battle at Lonely Mountain. I believe this is in the original book but the way it plays out on the big screen just feels totally unachievable, even for a fantasy film. Even though we have witnessed much death and destruction in these movies up to this point, there is something quite brutal and genuinely terrifying about this slaughter.Īlas its all brought to a stupid conclusion with the way Smaug is brought down, one black arrow hitting one small chink in the dragons armour. Nevertheless this sequence is mightily impressive with full-on dragon kickassery as Smaug swoops down, back n forth, carpet-bombing the town with a tsunami of fiery death. Whether or not you agree that this sequence should have been at the end of the second movie is no longer of importance really, we all know it should have been. The most impressive part of this entire movie is right at the start, the destruction of Laketown by Smaug. Sauron himself pops up along with Saruman to hint at what is to come in the follow up trilogy, after freeing Gandalf, but as the title suggests the main crux of this movie centres around the battle at Lonely Mountain for the treasures deep within. If you've been following this franchise up to this point (stupid thing to say really) then you'll know this movie completes the story arc for Smaug the dragon, Bard and Thorin. Here we are, the final chapter in this blatantly over-milked adaptation of the Tolkien Hobbit book.
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