[AR_Six]

The review aggregators are stupid, you have to read the individual reviews. Upon so reading half a dozen, mostly from the top critics, I glean the following. I don't think these are spoilers but I'll tag 'em anyway.

Spoiler!

1. Everyone agrees it's too long and needed a trip to the editing room to cut out a number of scenes.
2. The thirteen dwarves are hard to keep track of and don't individually develop much personality other than Thorin.
3. The beginning drags a lot and reminds of the end of ROTK with a lot of stuttery shifts from one scene to another. Because of this the film feels more like "act 1" and not enough of a stand-alone movie; it barely gets off the ground. Which makes it really annoying that the next one is a full year away.
4. The 48fps is really, really jarring and has the opposite impact of that intended - instead of bringing you more into the movie, it exposes the "fakeness" of sets and props, and makes the whole thing look more like live theatre than a movie.
5. Everyone agrees that Gollum is awesome and possibly even better than the LOTR version. Everyone agrees that Ian McKellan's Gandalf is just as good as he's always been.
6. It's way better than Phantom Menace and the two shouldn't really be compared, but the Radagast character is a bit foppish and if you were dead set on making comparisons he'd be Jar Jar Binks.