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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Hobbit: Desolation of the Smaug (2013) Rating 4/5





Oh, misty eye of the mountain below
Keep careful watch of my brothers' souls
And should the sky be filled with fire and smoke
Keep watching over Durin's son….

Till you hear that vocals and closing titles rolling up, The Hobbit: Desolation of the Smaug will tightly put you in a deep trance of an epic journey of fantasy filled with mind boggling atmospheres and characters filled with heroism either they are short or tall or men or not. And this installment of The Hobbit jump right in to the action and it stays that way till the very end. There is little room for conversation and drama and it’s certainly is well evolved from the first movie and steadily on its way to the finale.

In this installment the Dwarfs accompanying Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit and the Gandolf the wizard continues their journey to Erebor to claim it back from the fierce dragon Smaug.  On the way they are hunted by the Ork and the team split in separate directions as circumstances fits. And all of them find challenges to deal with while a so far unseen greater enemy is brewing a war upon middle earth.

When it comes to Peter Jackson on the director seat, a fan will not expect anything less than to feast their eyes with mind blowing details scene by scene filled with fantastic action and animation. And this movie delivers all of them exactly or beyond expected. Some of the stunts you will witness are simply nothing less than anything you have seeing in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. And the sheer amount of simple to most complicated yet extravagant details the sets, costumes, CG delivers ads heavy value to the movies overall success.

Though I have felt that the first movie was a bit too long and some of the scenes could have being done without, this time the timing and the flow is simply great. Thus I have no complaints to express. And it’s certain that many bigger and better things await in the next one. Maybe the only thing I hate is the cliffhanger ending!! And the wait to see what happen next is bloody too long.

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