Review of the film The Hobbit: The Heath of Smaug
From the continuation of the film trilogy about the adventurousHobbits Bilbo Beggins to the Lonely Mountain no one was waiting for something supernatural and epic. Everything was predictable, no global battles and mind-boggling plot twists were not expected, our travelers simply had to go, whenever possible, avoiding trouble. However, even those small expectations that remained with the fans of Tolkien and Jackson did not materialize.
Peter Jackson has earned great respect withthe side of Tolkien fans and indulgence for many years ahead for his adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. The Trilogy of the Fellowship of the Ring is indeed an excellent example of how to film books. What can not you say about the "Hobbit". And it's not that the story is trying to stretch three films for three hours, but how it's done.
In the movie Hobbit: Smauga's wasteland creators intended to remove the most vivid and atmospheric moments from the book, replacing them with action and incomprehensible innovations. So, the visit to the dwarves of the house of Beorn in the book is devoted to a whole chapter with excellent dialogues, and in the film this event takes only a few minutes. But our gnomes, along with the retouched legolas, are constantly fighting and are running somewhere. We are constantly shown incredible fighting scenes, where the characters show miracles of dexterity. At the same time, the dialogue is given a minimum of screen time, which gives the impression that gnomes and other characters are needed only for a "tick".
A director deserves a separate wordto the Hobbit. In the second part of the trilogy, Bilbo is devoted even less time than in the first. In the end, we get an action movie about the march of Thorin Duboshchit, his friends of gnomes and ... a hobbit. The addition of the love triangle Tauriel-Legolas-Kiely also seems meaningless. Why this plot was needed is completely unclear for two reasons: firstly, it was not and could not be in the source (elves can not consider gnomes as attractive), secondly, in the film, it does not affect the plot and does not disclose we have additional sides to the characters.
Hobbit: Smaug's wasteland will definitely appeal to those who want to look at the high-quality combat scenes (albeit a bit ridiculous in terms of physics), special effects in 3D, and fantastic landscapes. For those for whom the plot and the semantic component are the first place, the film can be recommended for viewing only for informational purposes - in order to be aware of the events.
Author: Vyacheslav Kinko
