Director: Peter Jackson
Year: 2013
Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lily
Another movie that I ended up missing when it was released at the cinema, this is one I've been keen to see for a while. I quite enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and wanted to watch the next installment. Thanks to a netflix trial, now was my chance.
The first half of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was a little disappointing. The movie is very grandiose, presumably in an attempt to retain an association with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now, as anybody who has read The Hobbit knows, the book isn't grandiose at all. It all happens on a much smaller, more personal scale than The Lord of the Rings, being told very much from Bilbo Baggins perspective.
Thankfully the movie improves in the later stages, and once we're introduced to Smaug it feels a bit like we're back in The Hobbit book territory, and not just trying to make everything seem much grander than it should be. Not a bad movie overall, but not really close enough to staying in keeping with the tone (not so much the story) of the original book for my liking.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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