Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) by Brandon W — 01 Dec 2016

The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies is a bit of a satisfying movie that is sadly the worst one out of all the series from The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. The cast are still fantastic as ever, and the action scenes are good, even if it's too overblown: the love triangle part is gone which is good, but the chemistry itself was a bit lackluster.

I find the friendship between Bilbo and Thorin more effective and I wanted to see where it's going for them. The plot is not as great as the first two Hobbit film, and felt like it was trying to be like the last Harry Potter film and Lord of the Rings, which both of those progressed the plot while still having a grand battle, this has a grand battle, but not much that progressed the plot is more or less an excuse to have a very long action scene, and not only that, they slowed down to keep the viewers relaxed, this did not which is disappointing.

The humor was a lack thereof which I didn't like, and the effects, while still great, looks a bit off at times for me. I got a bit bored at times, and the score by Howard Shore is good, but I felt like even he was getting tired of this series.

I'm kind of glad that The Hobbit series is over so that Peter Jackson can move on to new projects that can probably be as great as his old films.