Actors: Martin
Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke
Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Cate Blanchett, Ian
Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom.
Rating: 9 out of 10, I'm an unrepentant geek I am when it
comes to Tolkien and the movies. I still remember sitting next to a heating
vent on cold December mornings before junior high school marveling at the world
unfurling for me as I read first The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings
trilogy. Then you put this fascination up on the big screen as perfectly as
Peter Jackson has done over the last fifteen years and I'm apoplectic. The
Hobbit will always suffer when compared to The Lord of the Rings because the
story is so much smaller in scope, despite Jackson’s best efforts. The battle
scenes in this latest film comprise fully half of the entire movie and are
unremittingly exciting. Jackson has come
to rely a little too heavily on his CGI but seeing the five armies assemble and
then go at it was worth the wait. I
think Jackson kept Thorin Oakenshield in his A-Hole stage a little too long but
he also wisely went to Martin Freeman’s heartfelt Bilbo every time some
humanity and common sense needed injecting. There was so much going on in so
many different locations but Jackson expertly wove an understandable journey
for the viewer. I loved the movie and
can’t wait to watch all six of the two trilogies in one sitting (probably have
to wait for my wife to be out of town for that).
MVP: Freeman really
grew into Bilbo and made him the lovable conscience
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