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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Other | Saturday 4th January 2014 | Sukaina
After watching the biggest film in the cinema at the moment, exiting and suspenseful are the words that come to mind...
With the release of the new Hobbit film, Warner Bros. manage to accomplish the next stage of their spectacular feat of squeezing a 300 page book into three feature films. This seems almost ironic, seeing as it must have been so hard to fit the enormous Lord of the Rings series into just as many films. Yet they managed it and they did well. Although this film has been the well-anticipated talk of fantasy lovers for the past year, I on the other hand, was not so convinced it was going to be very good at all. In fact, in all honesty, I thought it would be deadly boring.
Despite this I thought I should give it a chance for a number of reasons. First of all, it features a heavy cast including Orlando Bloom, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch. I had also already watched the first one so obviously I had to watch the second! However, the second film gives such a good synopsis of the first film's storyline, that is does not take much time to catch up with what is going on. I also had this nagging feeling that although I couldn't’t remember the storyline of the first film at all, I had actually enjoyed it.
So if we fast forward to the present, after watching it, I can now definitely say it was a good film. Yet, I do now realise why I didn't’t remember the storyline. It isn’t a notably deep film; you are not going to come out of the cinema feeling refreshed, inspired or even particularly moved but what this film does pull off spectacularly is suspense . There were moments during the film where I felt like I was on a rollercoaster ride, preparing myself for the next drop. Another positive is the humour. The script is littered with funny one-liners, including a big enough dose of sarcasm to fulfill the expected role of ‘dry’ British comedy. This was markedly helped by Martin Freeman who plays the main character – ‘Bilbo Baggins’ and is known best for his role in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where he plays a similarly sarcastic character.
However, one of my favourite aspects of this film is the soundtrack, especially Ed Sheeran’s song ‘I See Fire’; made especially for the film. As the song came rolling out at the credits, I gave up all hope of sticking to my original hypothesis- that the film would be terrible. With that resolution well and truly crushed, I would advise that if you are looking to watch a film that will dispel your bad mood and raise your spirits then this is definitely the one to choose.
Sukaina Kadhum
