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leefranciswaite

Not so precious.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2021

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Martin Freeman is good as are all those performing - but enough is enough - a travelogue for New Zealand this really isn't. Good on the 'kiwis' for trying to keep New Zealand on the world map - but 'Hobbits' - like Rabbits - need humane controlling. If you like Tolkien, you will enjoy working out which actors are which characters, but you may not 'love it' - very 'samey'. please quit whilst you are ahead.

lemon

Endless running....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2015

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This film is so DULL! They run away from Orcs. They run away from Men. They run away from a dragon - it's like a marathon without the excitement. This joins the book Gallilie by Clive Barker as something I can't finish.

chris arnold

nothing like the

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2015

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Rubbish, nothing like the book

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Andy D

Too long

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2016

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The trilogy format worked for LOTR, but they should not have repeated it for the Hobbit.
There is just far too much extra, irrelevant, boring stuff going on in the Hobbit films.

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The dreariest film I've ever forced myself to sit through

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2015

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I'm not such a Tolkien purist that I can't appreciate the decision to give established characters some new adventures, but what I can't understand is the unrelenting drabness of this film. Why use colour film at all - it could have been done in black and white, or rather sepia and white. Even Thranduil's halls were crude and dull - has all of the production team's imagination been used up?
What a waste of good acting, and the opportunity to create another absorbing Middle Earth with at least some beauty to make a contrast to the Desolation.

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Valerie S Simpson

Disappointingly boring

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2014

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Husband introduced me to the earlier films which I enjoyed, bought this for him as thought we'd both enjoy, ,,,,,,,, neither of us did,in fact he dropped off very early on, boring, confusing and ........zzzzzzz

seahorse

feel cheated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2014

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i don't want to spoil the film for anyone ,but this is a lengthy film about nothing much at all.Dont understand why gandolf is in it at all and the ending is a money spinning con.

William Tell

like expanded polystyrene packing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2015

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This film resembles the curate's egg. It was obvious that, in making three films out of one small book, a lot of padding would be necessary. It this case much of it is, like expanded polystyrene packing, only fit for the scrap heap. The film derives more from Mack Sennett than from Tolkien.

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Maguire

Flop

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2015

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Ho hum. Pretty boring. Read the book, far more entertaining.

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A. D. Lewis

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2015

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film keeps stopping don't recommend you

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