Almost 10 years from the original Lord of the Rings has passed, people still linger of the magical world of Tolkien. Peter Jackson is back on the helm to direct the prequel story to the epic fantasy.
frankly, I was disappointed to hear that Guillermo del Toro left the set of The Hobbit in pre-production phase. On the other hand, my hopes were up again when the original director took his old place back.
Now, let’s talk about the new 1st part of three. The Hobbit ,an unexpected journey. It’s a difficult situation when you try to have a comeback specially after the huge success of LOTR, but the movie was good, not as good as Followship of the Ring. I’ll state my problems with it later.

I loved the cinematography, top notch nostalgic sets from the original trilogy. It was better due to the fact it was more colorful and wide (all thanks yo the RED Epic camera) it was a wise decision from Jackson to pick this camera for this, thought it needs more light when shooting but the outcome is gorgeous.

Also,  the soundtrack was Epic and powerful. Specifically, the dwarves song. I’ve been humming that tone all week before the premier

The performance was brilliant. Ian (Gandalf) was awesome as ever. Of course Andy Serkis (Golum) was terrific.

One of my problems with An Expected Journey is that the dwarves didn’t have a huge effect on the movie, they had their part but I didn’t relate to any of them except Thorin. The Followship were all huge and had outstanding parts in the plot. The other problem is the movie was cold at the beginning, and some parts in the middle. Other than those problems it was a very entertaining journey.

+amazing cinematography
+powerful OST
+brilliant cast

-cold at moments
-some characters

8/10