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Oh, and Legolas returns and there's sort of a hint of a love triangle, because these epics need them nowadays. It's mainly in the inclusion of the elves, and an elf/dwarf romance that comes when the dwarfs are captured momentarily and the really handsome one and Evangeline Lilly's elf fall for one another. This is like looking at a nervous football player, loaded up so that he doesn't get pummeled. Like the other two films in this unnecessary trilogy, there's padding. Again, not a bad character, but something that I wish was a little more strongly written or played dimension-wise. But I never really felt for the character so strongly or his quest so much, despite the ending of the first film where there is something of an arc between him trusting Bilbo. Thorin comes into a scene and makes his declarations, which is what you do in a fantasy epic like this. He wants revenge and justice and so on, but the character just feels so flatly written and plain, somehow there was just a little more dimension with the Lord of the Rings trilogy's mirror character, Aragorn. He is there and present in this character if the hardcase leader of the dwarfs who has a rightful problem with his father, the former king of the dwarfs, being killed. For what he's asked to do, Richard Armitage isn't exactly bad in the role, not by a long-shot. But with the exception of a few scenes scattered about, it felt like there was a lack of Bilbo, which is a shame since Martin Freeman is so moving and funny and on-point in this role of the quirky 'straight-man' to these much quirkier, rambunctious dwarfs led by who is arguably the real protagonist - or co-protagonist - Thorin Oakensheild.

I say the 'majority' as he does show up in large part at the end, when it comes time to enter the castle in the mountains and the face-off against the dragon, Smaug, who has hoarded over the dwarfs' gold. is okay (thought I'd say 'drools' didn't ya)īilbo is supposedly the lynch-pin of this whole story - hell, it's called 'The Hobbit' after all, and it's about (as the song in the 1977 animated film starts, 'The greeeeatest adventurrrre') - but damn if you'd know it watching the majority of this entry. Reviewed by Quinoa1984 7 / 10 Smaug rules, and the rest of the movie.