I saw this movie on Friday. It easily is the worst movie I've seen all year. They should not have killed wyvern Smaug as part of the title sequence. 5 to 10 minutes in and the most dynamic character on the screen is wiped out in a completely unbelievable fashion. From then on it's 2-hours worth of "How to Kill an Orc" and watching completely flat characters do the same thing over and over again. Seriously, I'm surprised they found so many different ways to slice and smash those orcs up.
This is me being disappointed. The Hobbit had so much more potential than this. The characters could have been made deep, properly brought to life, and a timeless story could have been realized. Instead we got stuck with action sequences so forced and drawn out that people just started pulling out their phones in the middle of the movie and never looked back. Someone should post the movie's script online. I bet you could read through all the dialogue in 10 to 15 minutes if you ignore the [fighting], [some more fighting], and [even more fighting] sections. So much potential wasted.
