Fighting, fighting, and more fighting.... Oh look! Some story.
In this final installment of The Hobbit series, we continue with a dragon coming to lay siege to a small village. After that is dealt with, we see the Dwarves we have been following through the first two movies (recently separated), reunited in the mountain they have been seeking all this time. As they come together, they are confronted by their leader having been driven mad by gold. They must try to get him back to the way he was as two interested parties come to collect on debts that were promised to them. While all of this is going on Gandalf has to race to the scene where our heroes are, and warn them of a large army of Orcs coming to destroy them all.
The story here should not be important to anyone. Seriously, if you read the book, just get it out of your head that this movie is going to make every detail shared with you in text, come to life on the big screen. Luckily, I am not weighed down by such matters when it comes to a movie. If a movie is good, I am going to appreciate it as a movie. The storyline here is WAY, WAY, WAY far in the background for this movie, and what you should expect is a truck load of battle sequences. There is something about a love triangle between two pretty elves and the pettiest, little Dwarf in the company. There is something about a king being driven mad because a dragon laid on some gold for so long, and poisoned it or whatever. There is something about humans being anti-war, and children being around. I don't know, all I know is that this movie provided more fan service than any movie before it, with the fight scenes given. All of the story arcs met an abrupt end.... like solved within a few minutes kind of abrupt, and to me this was just Peter Jackson trying to out do any big battle scene he had done before.
I feel like this movie needed one of those overly enthusiastic sales people you find on late night television at the fore front of each one of the trailers for this. You want these three older characters kicking ass against a bunch of ghosts? We got it! You want big troll things being used as a battering ram/siege tank? We got it! You want an army of Elves mixed with an army Dwarves, with a small band of humans? We got it! and we even threw in a wizard, some animals, and a Hobbit. You want a climatic and satisfying ending to the big, bad Orc terrorizing our company of heroes through the first two movies? We.... well.... I am not going to spoil anything. This movie was about an hour and a half of battling, half an hour of story development, ended with twenty four minutes of credits. Not a bad thing for those of us seeking "battles of epic proportions," and I really didn't expect much more from Jackson in this last movie.
Did you like the cast from the first two Hobbit movies? Good news everyone! They haven't gotten sick of this movie series yet, and are still amazing in their roles. There are no weak links in the chain here, everyone looked happy to be working, and (more to the point) gave almost perfect performances. Out of everyone I saw here it is hard to pick a favorite performance... at least it would be if Richard Armitage hadn't stolen every scene he was in. He may not have been my favorite character, but this performance brought him up to a close second. On a quick side note, if you didn't like the cast from the first two movies, what the hell are you on and can you keep it as far away from me as possible?.... Just a joke.
The story here should not be important to anyone. Seriously, if you read the book, just get it out of your head that this movie is going to make every detail shared with you in text, come to life on the big screen. Luckily, I am not weighed down by such matters when it comes to a movie. If a movie is good, I am going to appreciate it as a movie. The storyline here is WAY, WAY, WAY far in the background for this movie, and what you should expect is a truck load of battle sequences. There is something about a love triangle between two pretty elves and the pettiest, little Dwarf in the company. There is something about a king being driven mad because a dragon laid on some gold for so long, and poisoned it or whatever. There is something about humans being anti-war, and children being around. I don't know, all I know is that this movie provided more fan service than any movie before it, with the fight scenes given. All of the story arcs met an abrupt end.... like solved within a few minutes kind of abrupt, and to me this was just Peter Jackson trying to out do any big battle scene he had done before.I feel like this movie needed one of those overly enthusiastic sales people you find on late night television at the fore front of each one of the trailers for this. You want these three older characters kicking ass against a bunch of ghosts? We got it! You want big troll things being used as a battering ram/siege tank? We got it! You want an army of Elves mixed with an army Dwarves, with a small band of humans? We got it! and we even threw in a wizard, some animals, and a Hobbit. You want a climatic and satisfying ending to the big, bad Orc terrorizing our company of heroes through the first two movies? We.... well.... I am not going to spoil anything. This movie was about an hour and a half of battling, half an hour of story development, ended with twenty four minutes of credits. Not a bad thing for those of us seeking "battles of epic proportions," and I really didn't expect much more from Jackson in this last movie.
Did you like the cast from the first two Hobbit movies? Good news everyone! They haven't gotten sick of this movie series yet, and are still amazing in their roles. There are no weak links in the chain here, everyone looked happy to be working, and (more to the point) gave almost perfect performances. Out of everyone I saw here it is hard to pick a favorite performance... at least it would be if Richard Armitage hadn't stolen every scene he was in. He may not have been my favorite character, but this performance brought him up to a close second. On a quick side note, if you didn't like the cast from the first two movies, what the hell are you on and can you keep it as far away from me as possible?.... Just a joke.
The big question hovering over this movie series (now that it is over) is: Does it hold up against the original trilogy? The answer is no, but it was fighting an up hill battle with that from jump street. The thing that made the original trilogy so appealing was, that they integrated big battle scenes and story so seamlessly. The original series left out tons of characters from the books, and still got away with being called a masterpiece. This movie can't get away with adding characters without scrutiny. The original movie series was fun, brilliantly acted, exquisitely written, and left most everyone that exited the theater happy. The question over this movie never should have been: will it be as good as the first? It should be, will it be fun? The answer to that is, yes. I had more fun with this than I did with the first two Hobbit movies, and feel no shame in admitting that (even if it didn't go exactly according to the book).Final Verdict: See it in Theaters All of the movies in this trilogy probably would have gotten the same score. All of the movies in the original trilogy probably would have gotten my highest score. Take the stick out of your bum and have some fun.
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