The new Hobbit movie - any good?

There's a little more urgency to the latest instalment of 'The Hobbit' series, but has director Peter Jackson gone far enough?

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

In the prologue to this second instalment of Peter Jackson’s sweeping Tolkien trilogy, the director makes a brief cameo, wandering through night-time streets on the borders of the Shire.