![]() ![]() But to what end? Again, in 4K this stuff looks pretty stunning, but looks only go so far when you don’t care at all about the characters at the center. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth with the first of three films based on J.R.R. A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug. With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott. And then Jackson finds yet more complications to throw at the plot to stretch things out even longer, when the simplest story point is just “then Smaug breaks out.” At least The Battle of the Five Armies is just unabashedly an entire movie made up of a third act, with long stretches of no dialogue and lots of grunting. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Directed by Peter Jackson. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey videocam Trailer HD IMDB: 7.8 Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon. The Desolation of Smaug looks fantastic, especially as Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lily enter the fray, but by the time you get to Biblo’s ( Martin Freeman) confrontation with the titular dragon, you’re worn out. When the most exciting part of your movie is Gandalf hinting at the return of Sauron and not the main characters or story point, you’ve got a problem. ![]() The only positive extension is all the stuff involving Gandalf ( Ian McKellen) and Dol Goldur, and even then I can recognize it’s just partly because I’m responding to LOTR fan service. ![]()
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