Rating: 4/5
Review: "The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey 3D movie review"

This is the highly anticipated prequel to The Lords of the Ring movies. As a stand alone movie, it does pretty well to engage audiences with its great special effects and fantasy creatures. I cannot compare this with the first trilogy as I can hardly remember it although I will catch it later. But as it seems, this is more lighter than the serious first trilogy. Sure this has its fair share of intense battles but this is more light-heart.

The story: With a runtime of 2 hours and 49 minutes, you can be sure that this will take its sweet time to get the adventure going which is true. After a brief action-packed introduction, the movie moves slower. The first half and hour sees a hobbit's unwillingness to go for an adventure as the other dwarves plan to steal their treasures and take what is rightfully theirs. After the hobbit agrees, the fantasy adventure starts and following it are dangers. There are a few action scenes that is not worth mentioning but it is the last action-packed 40 minutes that is worth to mention. And then obviously, there is a sort of cliffhanger which will lead to the second movie coming in 2013. Acting wise is good. Special effects and sets are good. Score by Howard Shores is good, suitably epic.

3D: It is considerably good. I have watched it in HRF 3D. It is quite okay although sometimes the picture especially during the action moves fast that may be hard to look at. Other than that, the depth is good. The scenes in the sky look good. It has a in-front-of-your-face effect.

Overall: It is worth to watch this in cinema in 3D. Although this may start off slow but it catches up in the last hour and it may show that the next movie may be more exciting. I did not have much high hope for it but I have enjoyed it.