Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) by Drake T — 28 Apr 2015
The film is essentially a 2 hour and 30 min action sequence with the best production values money can buy. Forget having a narrative, lets just throw as many action sequences together and loosely string them together with a premise that we'll call a plot.
The pacing isn't even good either, Smaug's death was underwhelming and completely overshadowed by later events. Rather than "The Battle of Five Armies" why not call it "A Dragon dies and Legolas beats everyone up."?
The Hobbit trilogy started out as a decent set of films but has whole heartedly embraced the fact that it's nothing more than fanservice for the LOTR franchise. Some may love it for that fact but as a film critic I simply can't be so forgiving.
This review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) was written by Drake T on 28 Apr 2015.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has generally received positive reviews.
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