Film Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

It’s almost a shame that human nature finds comfort in threes. The modern trend toward telling stories in trilogies seems to ignore the fact that some of them benefit from simplicity and compression. Director and co-writer Peter Jackson’s film version of The Hobbit is a case in point. This second episode, The Desolation of Smaug, has all the elements of a good action movie, but as the middle peg in a trilogy, it just isn’t a superlative one.

Read the rest of my review at Oakville.com – click the title link.