GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

jimbo-53-186511 Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is selected by Gandalf as the 14th member of his team and is tasked with assisting a group of dwarves to reclaim their home Lonely Mountain. Baggins is initially reluctant to help, but does prove his worth and eventually wins over a group of rather sceptical dwarves...Many other people have probably eluded to the fact that it was going to be a tough task for Jackson to replicate the success of The Lord Of The Rings. Even going in with expectations of it being not as good (which it wasn't), it still wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped it would be...The Lord Of The Rings films were long films, but in fairness I didn't really notice the time passing by when watching the original trilogy. Sadly that isn't the case here; the set-up to the story here goes on far too long and starts to grate after a while - I realise that some set-up is necessary, but if I'm not mistaken it's getting close to the hour mark before they even embark on their journey. The whole set-up with the dwarves arriving at Baggins house, goofing around and p***ing him off was mildly amusing, but again it was overdone and dragged on for too long.Perhaps that's the problem with this film - it felt like Jackson didn't really have the material to stretch the film to its 'epic' length of just under 3 hours so he just torturously padded the whole film out. Another example of this is Bilbo Baggins encounter with Gollum - yes it's necessary to the story, but again their 'riddling' battle of wits and Baggins playing hide and seek with Gollum whilst invisible seemed to be a long-winded and elaborate way of showing how Baggins acquired the ring. I also felt that the film didn't have much narrative structure or shape and Jackson had a tendency to dart the film in all kinds of directions which at times made the film feel a little muddled - he did this to an extent in LOTR, but it didn't feel as detrimental there as it does here.The performances by the main cast are a mixed bunch; McKellen is always good value and does an excellent job again. The likes of Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee are solid in supporting roles. Freeman isn't quite as good as many of the other cast members, but does an OK job.Overall then The Hobbit is an OK film that is watchable, but by unnecessarily and painfully stretching the film out to nearly 3 hours in length the film does have a lot of dull stretches meaning that a lot of viewer patience will be required in order to endure it in its entirety.

Christopher Evans I won't go into too much detail about my thoughts on this film. It was OK as entertainment, nothing special or very impressive as far as I am concerned and I reduced the rating I gave from 6.5/10 to 5/10 when I heard that animals (27 farm animals) died as a result of filming. If these deaths were caused deliberately by stunts or mistreatment on purpose then I would reduce the score further but it was more due to negligence it appears. As a result I will give some credit that "accidents and mistakes can happen" but it really is unacceptable in this day and age for animal welfare to not be given proper care. That therefore mars what was an acceptable piece of entertainment.Artistically I am not a fan of Peter Jackson and find this film includes some of his usual overblown nature. Visuals are sometimes wildly over the top in the CGI causing jarringly unreal and muddled action scenes and there are pretentious traits Jackson has, trying to be 'clever' or 'impressive' without achieving those aims which reduces the impact of the drama. There is fun and entertainment to be had but this is not the best possible adaptation of Tolkein's classic and has plenty of flaws. At best I would rate it 6.5 to 7/10 for quality but I have reduced the rating due to animal welfare negligence as I have described.

morganstephens512 What I liked 1. The song at the shire house 2. Gandalf and Bilbo's performance 3. The scene at Rivendell What I didn't like 1. Set up for future movies 2. The goblin king 3. Most of the dwarfs weren't that interesting This is not a bad movie. It is a lot better than any of the sequels, but it is still far short of the main trilogy

kaloyankirow A story line from a book always makes a good movie. Like LOTR this trilogy tops the fantasy genre like no other movies can. I imagine how difficult will be to explain to my children what a quality cinema looked like and how they'll argue with me about that. I believe this trilogy is one of the last that count as "cinema"