The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

There's just so much wrong with this film it makes me kind of mad. There is way too much green screen and CGI making some of it look pretty bad.

We left our band of misfits of dwarfs, hobbits and wizard on their way to the Lonely Mountain to defeat the dragon Smaug to reclaim the mountain but along their way to battle the dragon and take back the mountain, a certain evil arises in the west, high on a mountain full of fire and brimstone lays a certain shroud from ages before. A shroud that covers the west of Middle Earth…but we'll leave that for the sequels in the Lord of the Rings movies to tell that side of the story.

(Original review written on December 17th 2014)Good things: -Smaug's attack on lake town -The Dol Guldur battle -Thorin's character development -The build up to the battle of five armies -Bilbo's character defining moments -The music -SOME of the Humor - A few of the battle sequences -Dain Ironfoot's character -The tie in's to LOTR -The endingBad things: -Some dramatic moments that fall flat -little character development -Not much Gandalf -CGI was a bit over used -the romance between Kili and Tauriel - Some loose ends were not tied up -dragged out sequences -Humor in the wrong places -Some over fleshed out sequences that were not in the Book-Legolas being treated like a main characterOverall, A great movie but still had flaws. Definitely the best of all the Hobbit movies, but does not come close to the Lord of the Rings.

I hated the first 2, And i mean HATED. They were complete trash and pretty much a pg-13 Disney movie.

In December 2003, a generation wept, heartbroken from saying goodbye to the beloved realm of Middle-Earth, which had redefined cinematic potential and captured their hearts for three consecutive years. In December 2014, they wept again – this time from the bitter relief that the embarrassing, bloated, fecal cash-cow zombification calling itself The Hobbit was finally putting itself out of their collective misery.

Watched The Hobbit :The Battle Of The Five Armies with Martin Freeman(Sherlock) as Bilbo Baggins, Richard Amitage(Captain America:The First Avenger) as Thorin Oakenshield ,Ken Stott(The Chronicles Of Narnia:Prince Caspian) as Balin,Graham McTavish(Columbiana) as Dwalin, William Kircher(Legend Of The Seeker) as Bifur,James Nesbitt( Coriolanus) as Bofur ,Stephen Hunter(All Saints) as Bombur, Dean O'Groman (Kawa)as Fili, Adian Turner(The Mortal Insruments City Of Bones) as Kili,John Callen(Love Birds) as Oin,Peter Hambelton(Stolen) as Gloin, Jed Brophy(District 9) as Nori,Mark Haldow(King Kong) as Dori, Adam Brown(ChuckleVision) as Ori , Slyvestor McCoy(Doctor Who) as Radagast The Brown, Luke Evans(Immortals) as Bard , Stephen Fry(Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows) as The Master Of Laketown and , The Lovely Evangline Lily(Real Steel)as Tauriel, Lee Pace(Guardians Of The Galaxy)as Thranduil, Orlando Bloom(Pirates Of The Carribbean) as Legolas, Sir Ian McKellen(X-Men Days Of Future Past) as Gandalf The Grey, Cate Blanchett(Blue Jasmine) as Galadriel, Sir Christopher Lee(Star Wars) as Saruman, Hugo Weaving(The Matrix Trilogy),Billy Connolly(Brave) as Dain Ironfoot,Lawrence Makoare(Xena:Warrior Princess) as Bolg Manu Bennett(Arrow) as Azog The Defiler, and Benedict Cumberbatch(The Imitation Game) as Smaug The Terrible/Necromancer . The film focuses on Bilbo and The Company culminates there quest of The Lonely Mountain as The Five Armies of Middle Earth seek to take The Lonely Mountain for its riches and location also The Dark Lord has Revealed Himself to The White Council after regaining much his former Strength thanks to his one Ring Horcrux, The film was very sad but awesome an exciting scenes involving all the Five Armies and also Legolas,Thorin and Thranduil My Only Complaints was that there was no real resolution between Tauriels-Legolas-Kilis Love Triangle also it seem the Quest seemed to End Abruptly with the Fate everyone Unclear This is a great Third act but no where at The Level of Return Of The King .

Peter Jackson should have stopped while he was ahead and not attempted The Hobbit films at all. This was no where near the caliber The Lord of the Rings trilogy was (still is).

This is my favorite of the hobbit movies with epic action scenes, good visuals, great acting, interesting characters, well written script, and the pacing is better than the other two while still having the nice moments with the characters. The only flaw is that some of the dwarfs when they die don't work cause they don't develop them well so they kinda fall flat.

*Spoiler/plot- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 2014. The exiled dwarfs ally with the lake people (humans) to attack the dragon sleeping in their realm of gold.