If The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey existed in a vacuum I’m sure I’d think it was great. Unfortunately, in comparison to the trilogy it exists alongside, it comes across unexpectedly mixed.
Freeman and McKellen are great, but of the thirteen Dwarves looking to reclaim their homeland, I can only describe two. Andy Serkis’s Gollum is once again the real highlight. How he hasn’t been nominated for major awards I’ll never know.
But there some big problems. The main lies with the source material, and greed. The Hobbit isn’t a big book! How do they expect to make a trilogy out of it? From this first films, it’s by stretching things out too thinly. Then there’s the simple fact that CGI Orcs don’t look anywhere near as good as practical FX Orcs.
An over-reliance on CGI, and greed, has put paid to The Hobbit matching the quality of the previous films.
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