You won’t like it if: you’re a big fan of Tolkien’s original books and expect a certain level of faithfulness to his story, you think that he had a better idea about the backstory and the character motivations, you don’t care for gratuitous battle scenes, you can’t stay out too late. You’ll like it if: you enjoyed the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) movies, you want to return to Middle-earth, you like action movies, you’re keen on regularly scheduled battle scenes, you don’t care so much about fidelity to the original books by J.R.R. In talking to friends who have been to it, reactions to the movie seem to fall into two camps: some felt it moved along briskly and engagingly, while others thought it was slow, bloated, and clumsy. But even after seeing it twice, my feelings remain mixed. MOVIE REVIEW: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEYĮven if I had been told The Hobbit was the worst movie ever made, I still would have gone to see it.
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