Basically…
In the third and
final instalment the dwarves have to defeat Smaug the dragon (Benedict
Cumberbatch) and then take on opposing armies before reclaiming Erebor as their
home.
In other words…
Yet another one.
The main men and leading ladies…
Martin Freeman is,
as ever, untouchable. Ian McKellen is just the same old Gandalf we know and
love while Richard Armitage takes a dark turn as Thorin hunts for the much
sought after Arkenstone.
In the chair…
Peter Jackson
finally completes over a decade of work with his sixth epic but come on, it just wasn't necessary. He’s been getting a bit carried away lately
and didn't need to replicate the magnitude of Lord of the Rings for a much
smaller story.
So…?
Someone needs to
take a knife and absolutely butcher this trilogy because the editors certainly
didn't do it. In all honesty this shouldn't have been more than a two-part
mission with the journey and meeting Smaug being part one, with the subsequent
battles taking part in the sequel. Too much time was given to Gandalf and the
elves as they paved the way for the Lord of the Rings, they're side plots were so
unnecessary it came across as nothing more than padding. The battles resembled
the The Two Towers so it was nothing we hadn't seen before and some parts were so far
fetched it made the unbelievable, well, even more unbelievable. At least there weren't 25 endings this time, and Billy Connelly’s dry humour worked a treat
(“Oh come on!”), but in essence this was just Middle Earth porn. Completely
unnecessary but ticked all the boxes and kept the fans happy.
Worth the money?
Only if you need to complete the trilogy for closure.
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