I'm still not sure whether or not I'm sold on the whole "48 fps" thing. During normal dialogue scenes in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I was fascinated by how the frame-rate made everything look as realistic and clear as a documentary. But during the action scenes the frame-rate became somewhat of a distraction. The picture began to chug and clip like a video on Netflix that hasn't fully loaded. Jackson's Tolkien films have always featured some of the best visual effects in the industry, but the frame-rate makes makes the computer-generated images seem...well...artificial. I'm not sure if computer graphics are up to snuff for 48 fps. Anyhow, The Desolation of Smaug is an enjoyable, if padded, affair. Since the first movie has set the plot and characters up, Jackson was free to have a bit of fun with the proceedings. Two of the best sequences in the film demonstrate his trade-mark slapstick and sense of humor that was somewhat lacking in the first film: the battle against a horde or giant spiders and the escape from the realm of the wood elves via river-barrel. One scene where eight Dwarves each grab a spider's leg and pull them off leaving a twitching torso was a delightful reminder that Jackson was, in fact, the director of Bad Taste (1987) and Braindead (1992). These sequences worked because they allowed Jackson to be Jackson. I briefly revisited Jackson's early Lord of the Rings films and was reminded how visually clever, disturbingly intense, and warmly humorous they were. His Hobbit films, on the other hand, contain too many passages that feel like he was simply on auto-pilot. A mercilessly padded action finale where Smaug is almost drowned in liquid gold felt too contrived, too unrealistic, and too forced for even a franchise involving dragons and wizards. It felt unnecessary because it was unnecessary. Jackson just needed to end the second film on a high point. I wish he would have limited his Hobbit adaptation to just two films. There is too much in them that doesn't need to be there. In addition to making the films overlong, they sap the stylistic sparkle that makes Jackson's best films so damn enjoyable.
6/10
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