The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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6d I loved all the movies See more Leaburn O Dec 30 It’s a fitting end to a reasonable fantasy trilogy. Good battle scenes but felt like it just missed those special moments. Pleased to get through these films in quick succession. Never to be revisited even if I may watch LOTR again one day. Maybe. Watched on DVD. See more David D @FrostyXP Dec 29 Extremely boring. Very, very slow. The action was very very weak. See more Kevin P Dec 26 An extremely long action climax that goes on for over 2 hours. It's crazy how this was only a small portion of the book that got stretched out into an entire movie. Smaug is defeated in the beginning instead of the previous movie's climax (not even killed by Thorin). The evil lake town mayors are so cartoonishly evil, and I really don't care about Laketown. I liked the cool rescue mission with Galadriel, Elton, and Saruman (why is Galadriel so tired?). Thorin has turned to paranoid greedy idiot mode for most of the movie. Bilbo has nothing to do. Thorin's cousin's CGI was distracting. Legolas always steps in whenever Tauriel tries to make a stand. The battles are epic, but drawn out since our main heroes spend much of the runtime hiding away from the action. I didn't feel much for the elf lady losing her dwarf boyfriend. It isn't a bad movie, but it's still incredibly bloated and unfocused. Entertaining, but the epitome of why the Hobbit needed to be 2 movies instead of 3. See more J E @jjclassic Dec 8 not the best but good See more kish b Nov 17 ★★★★★ The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the grand, thunderous, heartbreaking curtain call that Middle-earth deserved, and it hits me right in the chest every single time. Yes, it’s basically one long battle. Yes, it’s the shortest of the six films. And yes, it still manages to feel absolutely massive. From the opening shot of Smaug raining fire on Lake-town (still one of the most spectacular dragon moments in cinema history) to Bilbo standing on the ravenhill watching the eagles wheel overhead while Howard Shore’s "The Last Goodbye" swells… it’s pure, unfiltered epic catharsis. Martin Freeman’s Bilbo is the beating heart of the whole thing: quiet, terrified, and braver than any armored king on that field. Thorin’s dragon-sickness and final redemption arc is Shakespearean tragedy at its finest; Richard Armitage rips your soul out with every broken whisper of "I’m sorry." The deaths of Kíli, Fíli, and Thorin on the ice still leave me a sobbing mess no matter how many times I see it. And when Billy Boyd’s voice starts singing over the end credits, good luck staying composed. The action is wall-to-wall insane (Legolas defying physics, Tauriel and Kíli’s doomed romance, Dain Ironfoot on a war pig, Beorn in bear form tearing through orcs like tissue paper), yet every crazy moment is earned because we’ve spent three movies falling in love with these characters. It’s messy, it’s over-the-top, it’s sometimes ridiculous… and I wouldn’t change a single frame. This is Peter Jackson saying goodbye to Middle-earth with everything he had left in the tank, and it feels like the entire audience is saying goodbye with him. Five stars. No irony. No caveats. Thank you for the adventure, Professor Tolkien. Thank you for the journey, Mr. Jackson. 10/10. The road goes ever on and on… and I’m still not ready for it to end. 🐉❤️ See more Read all reviews

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