With the ‘Desolation of Smaug’ being one of the best films I had seen last year, I was eagerly awaiting the new film in the trilogy. To say I was disappointed after watching this film is an understatement. This final part just proves that Jackson didn’t have enough material to stretch this thin story over the course of 3, 140 minute films. There’s no heart in this film, there’s nothing exciting about the characters and top it all off the CGI is alarmingly poor – most notably the visualisation of Billy Connelly which is frankly, laughable. It’s not the worst installation of the [...]
