Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) by Judge L — 03 Jan 2015

Finally getting around to this one. Liked it better than the first Lord of the Rings.

This review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) was written by Judge L on 03 Jan 2015.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Fernando D (86) on 05 Aug 2018

Eyecandy, but not quite like the original material…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Merijn J (211) on 04 Feb 2018

An Unexpected Journey is a worthy entry in the Middle-earth saga…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Richard N (178) on 20 Sep 2018

Welcome back to Middle-earth! Thanks, I hate it…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for Zaki's Corner (159) on 02 Nov 2018

We've got a lot of road to travel before we'll know if the quest was worth it. But I'm willing to go along on the journey, so that's something…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Aaron M (1,334) on 15 May 2018

Satisfying start to a new trilogy,good world building..nice characters.epic score…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Andre F (116) on 14 Oct 2018

Nostalgic. Love the way they changed quiet a bit but slow and could of fitted a lot more imo…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Anita T (49) on 17 Jan 2018

The movie was just OK and got pretty boring but it looked amazing especially in 48 fps…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Toby H (254) on 21 Nov 2018

This rating is as an adaptation. On its own, it's probably a 3-3.5…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Mayurakshi D (52) on 06 Jul 2018

It's sad to see a favourite book destroyed with the Lord of the Rings treatment - there it worked for me, not here. Totally overblown…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Angel S (136) on 08 Jan 2018

True its not as epic as LOTR, but really?! 64% in RT…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Pathfinder (2007)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Apr 2007

No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble…

Read Review

Review of Meet the Robinsons (2007)

By Thecriticstrine (2) on 03 Aug 2007

This movie was so bad I just about threw up on myself! It was a total disgrace to disney…

Read Review

Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Garyl. (2) on 02 Feb 2007

Clint Eastwood somehow over looked the fact that From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime…

Read Review

Review of Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

By Bloody W (65) on 31 May 2015

Samuel l Jacksons breath of fresh air performance isn't enough to save this piece of trash from crashing and burning horrible movie stick with…

Read Review

Review of Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 06 May 2005

A dreary, uninformative, emotionless disaster. At least Alexander had the comical benefit of Angelina Jolie hamming it up with reptiles…

Read Review

Review of Blood Diamond (2006)

By Francisco S (456) on 12 May 2016

Blood Diamond had everything to shine, but instead that, Edward Zwick prefered to transform the scenes sequence in a mess, making Leonardo…

Read Review

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 04 Jan 2007

Starts off on the wrong foot with the wrong tone, then keeps stumbling and bumbling its way to a climax half the people who buy tickets will…

Read Review

Review of The Dirty Dozen (1967)

By Pj P (157) on 24 Nov 2007

Hero'izing scum of the earth, no thankyou…

Read Review

Review of Die Hard 2 (1990)

By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Jul 2002

Standard sequel works well thanks to Willis and the high-flying heroics…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit (1977)

By Carole Ann R (17) on 13 Dec 2013

I haven't seen this version in a loong time! When I was a kid I thought it was scary (I think Disney Channel or one of those channels played it)…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

74%1,149 Reviews

Premium Rush

2012

64%810 Reviews

Employee of the Month

2006

50%504 Reviews

The Doors

1991

71%673 Reviews

A Face in the Crowd

1957

80%264 Reviews

Short Circuit 2

1988

57%366 Reviews

Into the Forest

2016

55%185 Reviews

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

1999

45%109 Reviews

Southbound

2015

57%125 Reviews

Evita

1996

62%614 Reviews