The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

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Bilbo and Company are forced to be engaged in a war against an array of combatants and keeping the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure. and obliterating all of Middle-Earth. (imdb)

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Directed By: Peter Jackson

Written By: Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens

Starring: Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, Evangeline Lilly

Genres: Fantasy, Action, Adventure

Franchise: The Lord of the Rings

Country: New Zealand, USA

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Stars	User	Rating
16	Barthalen	50 _28th
Imagine a 2,5 hour game that's 90% cutscenes which give two options: 'press A for actual content, press B for the most contrived, emotionally unengaging out-of-nowhere development'. Peter Jackson's furiously pressing B while half-sitting on a couch made of money, mostly naked and drunk. "Dis wutchall wantid, wuzznit??" he drools. The parts of the movie I disliked the most were the bits when the [CGI] [CGI]'d the [CGI]. Ringwraith battle was kinda cool though.. I think? Can't even tell anymore.
12	BeeDub	75 _29th
It seems likely that a single three-hour film could be culled from this trilogy, and that it could be wonderfully exciting, if still rather thin on character. I'll leave that to the people who make fan edits. The rest of us should treat ourselves to a LOTR marathon and try to forget this misbegotten and transparently greedy prequel trilogy.
11	Nroo	38 _12th
Finally, a film in this series I can just call BAD. Most of the plot is completely divorced from the source material--which I would NEVER use as a negative except that this creative team has shown that their original ideas are lame as hell. When Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee's body double were twirling their swords at a bunch of spooky CG ghosts, it became bad enough to be entertaining. The rest of the movie is just dull. Like Bilbo I spent most of the movie staring at blurry CG like a dunce.
11	Tony Irwin	43 _40th
LotR fanfiction, somehow married to an extraordinary Hollywood budget. Jackson, Boyens and Walsh demonstrate their populist touch that has earned them such acclaim, cribbing moments and even lines from every other movie and tv show you've ever seen, so that you feel safe and warm in this dross. It's a film for the masses, but particularly for fans - those who were so won over by Fellowship of the Rings that they are grateful just to be in Middle Earth again. I regret that I am one of those!
10	SirStuckey	50 _23rd
Elves can defy every law of physics, eagles always save the day, orcs suck at killing anything. I just don't care anymore.
8	DesertPunk	57 _25th
There's so much obnoxious slipping and sliding and swinging in Peter Jackson movies. I feel like I'm in a shitty water park, only I can't buy a turkey leg or get a weird rash.
7	frederic_g54	6 _35th
Freedom has never felt so good; Like being released from the clutches of that clingy ingénue who doesn't seem to understand you're not that into her.
7	KasperL	75 _77th
Escapism of the highest order. Empty, but the entertaining battle scenes blow those in LOTR out of the water, and the most dependable members of the cast, primarily Armitage and Evans, keep us interested in what is, essentially, an emotionally void non-story. My biggest problem with the movie was the comic relief from Alfrid - but, overall, I found this third and final installment to be the best in Jackson's new trilogy, and I was more than happy to return to Middle-Earth for another adventure.
7	Leonardis	79 _31st
A lot of my friends loved this one. Those friends did not read the book. They extended 4 pages into 144 minutes just like that. I loved the intro with Smaug and the battle sequences and effects, and it's still beautifully filmed and directed in every way, but this fails to live up to the novel. Filmwise this is still made exceptionally well, but it is still very underwhelming. Worth watching solely to reach the end of the trilogy if you made it this far.
7	mkellins	20 _5th
Have the producers learnt nothing from the book? The novel is about obsession with wealth driving people (or dragons) into madness. However, I doubt the production team had much more on their agenda than making a ton of money. The script is simply mediocre, including such original lines like "You make me feel alive", and crazy new creatures such as bats especially bred for war! It's a forgettable ending for the trilogy.
5	cagedwisdom	75 _65th
If you're wondering how far they can escalate the silliness, and how long they can drag it out to make another buck, you're finally going to get some answers with The Hobbit: The Battle of Legolas vs Physics. I don't have a strong attachment to the source material, nor do I feel this is remotely in the same realm as LOTR anymore, so I didn't mind this exercise in shark-jumping too much. I had a good, entertained yet fairly laughable time. Alfrid was a poo stain on an otherwise mediocre plot.
5	moraesfelipe	47 _28th
Well, as expected, not a film that is able to deliver the lessons written in the book -- money making people arrogant, mad and absolutely selfish. Such a sad finale for a trilogy that never quite clicked. A bummer that makes sure we'll never want to come back to Middle-Earth if Peter Jackson is set to drive us there.
5	d_drudges	10 _7th
Another 2,5 hours of meaningless clutter, with masses of characters you'll have no connection with. Written by a 13-year old LotR fan with no sense of pacing. A masterpiece. In retrospect I could have written this review without ever actually wasting my time with the film. Oh well.
5	LookJabba...	7 _57th
The Battle of the Five Armies marks the end of Peter Jackson's epic middle earth saga. And although it's been 15 years and 6 films of mixed enjoyment, I'm somewhat relieved it's concluded. As a visual and cinematic spectacle, this is probably the most entertaining film in the trilogy. But in terms of content and character development, this is hollow and my least favourite. Two instalments would of been satisfactory. And even though we didn't need this third film, it's still harmlessly enjoyable.
4	joseywales	82 _89th
I don't really have much to say about this one. At least the trilogy's over, time for a 12-part Silmarillion adaptation!
4	Snazz	70 _71st
When thinking about it, this movie actually hasn't much going for it (e.g. the attempted love story is the most epic fail of all). Yet, seeing these fantasy creatures running around hitting each other in the head is entertaining. I honestly don't know why.
4	mwgerb	52 _47th
The most ridiculous Legolas action thus far, even outdoing the Oliphaunt. The lack of source material is also taken to new extremes, "spread thin like butter over too much bread" one might say. Plus the cinematography looks like 300 crossed with a big budget video game. Anyway, this was still pretty watchable and will no doubt make a shitload of money, so I'll see you all back here in 2021 for The Silmarillion Episode I: The Valar Awaken.
4	redacted	61 _31st
What happened to Billy Connelly afterwards? Did the Elves leave empty handed after the huge battle they lost platoons of troops in? How did that guy know to turn up with eagles? Why did P.J. cut out the sequence where Bilbo leaves the town and goes back into the mountain to tell the King he was a thief? What did the lake people do, just stay there? What did the Dwarves do with no obvious next in line for the throne? Do wizards have arbitrary amounts of power? WHAT? I should watch LOTR again.
4	bof	40 _15th
10 minutes of hackneyed plot squeezed into 150 minutes of CGI. For the love of everything that's holy, Christopher, hang on to the Silmarillion rights like Gollum to a cheap piece of jewelry.
4	Vdecraim	60 _24th
Luckily, they discarded their source material after 20 minutes. The Battle of the Five Armies is by far the worst installment in an already forgettable trilogy. Yet, because this universe doesn't feel like middle-earth AT ALL. My usual annoyances with The Hobbit disappear, as they fail to further destroy the beloved world of LOTR.
3	TheDenizen	60 _40th
Enjoyably goofy action set-piece dragged out to about 2 1/2 hours. It's got a bunch of unnecessary ridiculous shite crowbarred into it, bears almost no resemblance to the source material and has next to no blood....but Freeman and McKellen both shine when they're onscreen. Plus, you can't not laugh at Legolas and his preposterous CGI'd face and acrobatics. There's really no reason they couldn't have done this book in two films or less (other than greed).
3	Ytadel	6 _70th
If you want spectacle, you will get it: There is so much sheer action and incident in this film it makes the Fast and Furious movies look like methodical, thoughtful character studies. And for a fantasy nerd such as myself, orc-slaying is always good fun. The thin emotional arcs made me miss Frodo and Sam's interplay in Return of the King so damn much, though. Overall, this trilogy has confirmed what I suspected from the start: Tolkein's The Hobbit does not contain three films worth of material.
3	Anomaly	70 _49th
A really long battle with little emotional context or human scale. But it's not entirely without charm, as there are enough non-battle scenes and small instances of humor to keep things entertaining. It's just kind of tiring, really. Some fan will undoubtedly create a 2-film version of the trilogy that will probably be superior to any of the individual films.
3	muutanet	79 _82nd
I must say that though the story did not work, I was stunned by the visuals. They were nicely variated and I took the candy. Stone eating worms came and disappeared... Goats came from nowhere... What the heck. The action tasted good. I enjoyed a lot.
3	Luna6ix	75 _52nd
Suffering the same pitfall of "The Lord of The Rings" with six hours of "The Hobbit" already under my belt, the final installment begins to feel a little too long winded for comfort. But as to be expected, the effects are great, and the technical details are up to snuff with pretty much every gargantuan budget movie out there. It's watchable, and entertaining, but nothing special.
3	Ofterdingen	74 _85th
This is not for those that decided to hate Peter Jackson' second trilogy from the beginning. The rest of us can enjoy another beautiful, thrilling and full-blown adventure.
3	TheRealJ-Ro	80 _70th
It's possible that this movie is a victim of its placement, or it simply might be the weakest of the six trips to Middle Earth. In any case, "Five Armies" does not measure up favorably to any of the Rings movies or its two predecessors. I cannot see my way to ranking it lower than an 80, as ANY trip to Jackson's Middle Earth is one worth taking for me, but the heavy melodrama and odd-feeling choices drag this down. At least the 3D was worthwhile. This is NOT "the defining chapter" of this saga.
3	FrederikA	75 _77th
Aptly titled finale to Jackson's (mildly hubristic) prequel trilogy, that in summation ended up being much more enjoyable, than its obvious space operatic prequel comparison (by one G. Lucas). Perhaps enjoyed better as an action packed dramatization of a particularly intriguing game of Warhammer, than a precursor to the LoTR saga, but a good time, none the less.
3	filmfreak88	70 _54th
I realize now that I have a soft spot for The Hobbit. I would be the first to agree with you that this isn't a particularly good film, that it's nowhere near as good as LOTR, and that stretching this into a trilogy is an idiotic decision. But whatever, I still enjoyed it immensely and found it rather affecting.
3	mrandersen10	65 _30th
A film with more flaws than I can count, but I at least enjoyed the bickering and greed-fueled conflicts over the mountain of gold. That central struggle brought out some much needed character development and narrative focus that was missing from part 2. Anyway, glad this trainwreck of a series is finally over.
3	mandy	5 _19th
The most forgettable of Middle Earth films with all the elements I like the least, battle scenes and CGI, and little in the way of character development.
3	Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter)	40 _31st
With the weakest screenplay, characters who come and go as they please and don't develop in the slightest, and strong action that is hard to become emotionally invested in, The Battle of the Five Armies is a disappointing conclusion to the Hobbit trilogy. Very little feels like it means anything, most of the film is just one big battle -- or a convoluted way to set up the aforementioned battle -- and by the time all's said and done, we'll have realized that The Hobbit didn't need a trilogy.
3	damil	65 _54th
The Hobbit never should have been three films. This one wasn't even a movie at all - it was the end of one. It was basically what would be a third act of any regular film. I hate the name change in the title, but it is accurate - it's all just a battle. I'm really disappointed. This one left me cold. I had zero emotional involvement. The comic relief character was absolutely painful. Some of the fight scenes were good, but there was too much CGI used, in general. You sold out, Jackson.
3	antidood1	30 _3rd
2/10, needs moar CGI. Seriously though, the overabundance of computer-generated crap forms a new (and hopefully final) low in the franchise. Every second of screentime devoted to the character of Alfrid is time I will never get back, and that makes me sad. Everything else was bland, uninspired, emotionally detached and spectacularly dull to the point of becoming exhausting to watch.
2	SlrSoapbox	50 _18th
It takes talent for a movie that had so much potential to be this frustrating, disappointing and aggravating. Endless, endless fight scenes, which were always the most boring part of the LOTR trilogy. They all blended together into a squishy mush, and I got more annoyed the longer I contemplated just what COULD have been in this film but was inexplicably dropped for way too many goddamn fight scenes. Someone has to rein in Peter Jackson and start saying NO to him already.
2	schnofel	72 _78th
Though I always enjoyed the Rings films more when the tone was of a spirited adventure than of death metal, I have to admit that the strategy and general scale of this battle are awe-inspiring. The added story after the fall of the dragon is both fan service and fan fiction which makes it feel inessential in the end, but it wouldn't surprise me if Jackson's direction will one day be rediscovered and valued for the glorious vulgar scope that it has.
2	Moribunny	70 _75th
I dare say my enjoyment of Jackson's craft was even rekindled somewhat. I still think Tolkien is responsible for whatever is good about the story, but - though I was never aghast at Jackson's populist embellishments and heavy focus on acrobatic action spectacles - I've softened up to them more than before, which is good because the deviation is now drastic. In fact, I'm impressed that the final chapter of somebody's second consecutive trilogy still manages to keep me entertained for three hours.
2	terrymac	55 _25th
I largely enjoyed the trilogy as a whole, although found this last entry more flawed than the other two. There were perhaps too many CGI-heavy attempts at elaborate action scenes, some of which didn't look great, and the pacing and editing throughout the final battle really detracted from any sense of tension. That said, some of the performances were good (Evans and Freeman in particular), and much of the film works well. There is a very good film lurking within the bloat of the trilogy...
2	lrampartl	70 _60th
Too much was done too sloppily, and there's too much crying/slow-motion. It's still enjoyable, but this is really just a bunch of battle scenes.
2	Kojiless	28 _28th
Peter Jackson has turned into the George Lucas of this generation. And not because he's got overactive glands and unkempt facial hair. Because he rapes our childhood fantasies with overused CG, Jar Jar-esque comedic relief, poorly penned scripts, and fucking eagles ex machina. But mostly because he's got overactive glands and unkempt facial hair. At least there were no barrels this time.
2	walkabout	40 _8th
Basically, an extended sequence.
2	cowfrappe	54 _21st
2.5 hours of fighting and no one could say what it was for.
2	Space Pope	60 _31st
It's just... ehhhh. It was entertaining, generally, and it's well made, I guess, but... ehhhh. It's just fluff. It's just there. The first film lacked the magic that the Lord of the Rings films had, and this one lacks the magic that forst Hobbit film had.
2	Suture Self	5 _43rd
Okay, I think PJ finally got all that Middle Earth shit out of his system.
2	Ross	55 _51st
Unfortunately the magic is gone for me. I was thoroughly bored throughout the final and weakest part of the trilogy. Technically it is amazing, but I need a plot to get engaged.
2	Wiche	72 _63rd
Visual perfection. Storywise this is much less. 20 minutes Smaug, 20 minutes hatred, 80 minutes battle and no story or plot whatsoever. This film doesn't add anything in any single way to the Middle Earth Universe and that's just a pity.
2	Esmerodo	50 _17th
I'm a big LOTR & Hobbit fan but this was a disappointment. Way too much battle/fighting & way too little character development of anyone, even Bilbo. Jackson created Tauriel but doesn't seem to know what to do with her. Only Bard the Bowman of Lake-town & his family get any decent scenes. If there's a decent film here, it must be in the hour that was edited out.
2	FunkyAstro	65 _64th
Very disappointing. Out of all three movies if one of them proved why it was highly unnecessary for The Hobbit to be stretched so thin it was The Battle Of Five Armies. The entire movie was practically shot in slow motion. Every single death had it's own drawn out 15 minute tribute. Overall it just lacked substance. But at the end of the day it is still a Jackson directed Tolkien adaptation which makes it an automatic like for me.
2	chemtrails	40 _24th
Imagine 5000 CGI elven archers jerking off in perfect unison
2	Tavington	2 _37th
Not bad. But far away from previous parts or even LotR series. Also what is with romantic crap in epic movie like this. It would be way better if they just printed as much money as they want and make either one movie or TV-series.
2	Cinema_Asia	65 _42nd
A fitting end to a fairly underwhelming trilogy. It's not that this is awful but it's just so full of obvious filler that is significantly less epic than the original lord of the rings trilogy. Jackson did give it his best shot but nothing beats the original writing especially if the current trilogy sounds like fan fiction fantasy. If you want to know how it ends, it's all one action scene transitioning into the next. Even with action at the center some of the heroic moments just felt silly.
2	CHR1S	60 _22nd
Hardly an adventure. A mess, story- and character-wise.
2	Tjekhov	70 _69th
The best thing about this film is that, unlike the return of the king, it only has one ending... And then of course it has Azog The Defiler; the coolest antagonist-name, ever.
2	AndreasThau	55 _36th
Impressive battle scenes, really, but other than being amused by some new Legolas choreography, I was mostly open mouthed because of the yawning of the last 20 minutes. I did like the bad guy's icy check-raise-move, though. Like ... riiiiight, you just did that.
2	cogsworth	60 _10th
I watched this without many expectations, which was ultimately a good move, I think. The fight scenes are dazzling and over-the-top, as is expected by now, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Watch if you're looking for a good action film; pass if you're looking for something with depth.
2	MontyCircus	40 _37th
The Hobbit has been my favourite book since childhood, but after 3 films, the magic has been completely depleted. This was a real slog to sit through. Bilbo goes missing for the entire film. It's just a constant battle, and PG battling at that, so it's all so...bland. Disappointing. Makes me want to curl up with my well-worn hardcover in the fetal position. (The only way I'd ever watch this again, is The Hobbit as a two-film or even one-film edit.)
2	Scorpus	82 _75th
The trilogy certainly could have been condensed, but The Battle of Five Armies was an enjoyable finish to the story
2	xacviant	58 _13th
The trilogy than never should have been a trilogy limps to a close, with an entry which manages occasional thrills and spectacle, but is burdened with a muddy narrative, poor writing (and a lack of genuinely sympathetic characters), absurd action sequences (Bard's ride on the wagon, the Syfy-Channel-level face-off between Galadriel and Sauron), and, some have argued, racial stereotypes. The production design is impressive as always, though the special effects are surprisingly variable.
2	DougieD	40 _8th
I gave the first two movies a free pass because they were well made and entertaining fantasy films. With the third film it all falls apart, becoming an exercise in excess in what amounts to an extended third act battle scene. It remains well made and Jackson is adept at staging action scenes but everything is stretched thin to justify turning the book into a trilogy. Nice character moments are spoiled by references to LotR that are shoehorned into the scenes. Biggest disappointment of the year.
2	Insti	74 _42nd
There's a lot of fighting and not really much reason to care why or how things will be resolved. I suspect it works better as a final act if you see the trilogy with considerably less than 12 months between installments.
2	hamstercan	53 _31st
watchable
2	FoxyRussian	67 _21st
A 4 page battle extended to 144 minutes. If there was anymore reason to show why this book didn't need 3 movies it would be this movie. The first 10 minutes with Smaug should have ended the last movie, the battle scene feels stretched out and has no satisfying ending, in fact this movie didn't have a stratifying ending. No hour long Return of the King ending here. Finally how can 9 dwarfs turn the tide of the battle? You have 144 minutes, bother explaining that detail?
2	giaguipe	64 _29th
Grazie Dio che hai fatto finire questa cazzo di trilogia, cosicché il prossimo natale magari vado a vedere qualcosa di meno fracassacoglioni.
2	QtheAlmighty	63 _27th
Well this was the most boring, forced, continuity-throttling, and utterly empty and soulless film I've seen in a long time. Also all the "Remember LotR?! I made those?! These are connected?!" shit. Fuck this. Fuck this series. Fuck this movie.
2	dylanwilson6	75 _67th
It's a nice conclusion to the saga on Middle-Earth, even with all of its problems - but please let this be the last. Again, the stakes are just so much lower in this trilogy. The action is nice, but there was just something about the practical effects and the art of the battles in the LOTR compared to this CGI explosion fest. So in LOTR, Eomer and Gandalf in TT and then the riders of Rohan in ROTK help turn the tide of the battle. Here you have a handful of elves that somehow swing the balance.
2	TheEscapist	95 _99th
Amazing. I am so amazed by how great a conclusion to the series this film is, the liberties the filmmakers took often work quite well. The main theme that I got out of the source material and Tolkien's work in general is handled extremely well in this film. By which I mean the focus on the love of living things, of life, rather than gold, money, etc. You grow to care so much about these characters, every moment spend is bliss. A shame it had to end, but I'll rewatch these films many times over.
2	denial	80 _81st
Thoroughly entertaining.
2	juanbazooka	75 _23rd
Like butter spread over too much bread...
1	Filligan	80 _42nd
Peter Jackson has gone full-on George Lucas and it depresses me. Though this is an overall fairly good film, it has the misfortune of being yet another subpar prequel to a set of masterpieces. Why does this film -- and all of the Hobbit films -- feel like cartoon nonsense? The Lord of the Rings feel like works of passion, but these films feel like Jackson just said "good enough" for most of them. Some genuinely great stuff in here, but I'm left scratching my head over too much.
1	x-human	80 _66th
After the build up in Part 2 the burning of Lake Town is rather lackluster. Feels like we spent more time with the non-canon coating Smaug in gold than the canon burning of Lake Town. However this previous scene now creates a great set piece for a payoff. As well choreographed as The Battle is this feels too much like LotR and the bed time story feel of Part 1 is long gone. Overall this was too quick to dump the wonder and Tolkien's fireside manner is perhaps the greatest fatality of the Battle.
1	nuotio	59 _62nd
The last Hobbit film is the shortest, but it still feels very overlong due to endless battle scenes and false endings. After sitting through 6 Middle-Earth films, you just can't help feeling a fatigue. What was impressive back then, now feels a bit silly and pathetic. At least part 2 had more story and different locations to keep you interested. In a way it's a relief that Jackson's series is now (hopefully) finished. A great accomplishment for sure, but LOTR trilogy should have been enough.
1	IcyBrian	80 _66th
At best an hour of story followed by an hour and a half long battle sequence. That's not to say it's bad, just that in this case the title is aptly representative of the movie as a whole. It doesn't drag, and is an enjoyable watch (the wrestling fan in me liked Lucha Legolas.) I will say, though, that this felt more like the ending of Desolation of Smaug than it did a movie in its own right.
1	PirateJason	76 _58th
Finally, we're done! I can't complain about the quality of the film, but I've seen so much Middle Earth, like the Harry Potter series, I'm just a bit burned out.
1	nutcrackr	65 _24th
The last half of the movie is just fight sequences strung together. While the first half is preparation for those fights and that crawls at a snails pace. Just switch your brain off and watch because some of the fights are stupid.
1	gogokain	65 _66th
Still bloated and shitty, but at least it's mostly cool action.
1	CinematicESP	81 _54th
It's over!
1	PeaceAnarchy	79 _57th
About on par with the previous film, some parts are fun, others are tedious and drawn out. But the balance tilts towards the fun for the most part/
1	Grit	35 _30th
Extremely well put together but never has so much wildly complex action been so incomprehensibly dull.
1	nilkynarfy	55 _40th
Sayonara, Burger King commercial.
1	msprague	60 _32nd
I will rename this film "The Hobbit : The Unnecessary Chapter". If they let George Lucas edit the previous film and tack on the Smaug death scene that would be all that was needed to wrap this trilogy up. It really wasn't enough to go out to a theatre to see. The characters are good, the scenery and the monsters are good, it's all just good. Nothing exceptional. Oh, except Billy Connolly, love that guy!
1	ChrisPalm	60 _8th
This is sad. The trilogy never peaked at any point. A lot of scenes were rather embarrassing despite trying to be cool or funny. LoTR was in a league of its own.
1	monclivie	60 _21st
Exactly what I expected: uninspired, slightly boring CGI mess. After six hours with these characters I still completely don't care who wins the battle. Maybe because it's hard to take seriously a battle with a computer generated army..
1	TV+Film-Hub	30 _94th
Easily the strongest / most believable of The Hobbit trilogy, almost on par with the Lord of the Rings. It makes me want them to start on the Silmarillion.
1	INDYATMN	85 _74th
Though most of what makes this chapter pass by so (unusually) quickly r a lot of inventive action sequences, story-wise, there's a Mexican stand-off over a jewel that's positively riveting; more of the Arwen love triangle that any adult who's not a Tolkien zealot is profoundly grateful for; & a tale that, quite unusually, is about what happens after the climax & is filled w/ real-world parallels to the ways we all behave once the villain's been vanquished, but left his treasures behind.
1	topaz420	70 _22nd
It was ill-advised to try to take 300 pages of source material and turn them into as much filmed material as The Lord of the Rings' 1300 pages, but that's what Peter Jackson did, and it shows. I know somewhere within these 9 hours is a rousing adaptation of the book--I look forward to some talented fan editor doing that in the future. For now, this is a fine conclusion to a bloated and just enjoyable enough trilogy.
1	HyphenateMe	65 _46th
It was really weird that they started this movie with what should have been the climax of the last movie. When we finally hit the end of this trilogy, it was easy to see what could have been cut out wholesale. The fight was neat, I guess.
1	RealMacgyver	70 _53rd
Seriously makes me think this should have been a duology instead of a trilogy. Good battle but plenty of padding. And the little "go find someone called Strider" doesn't fit in with the time line at all
1	letskillrobots	7 _18th
Legolas riding the Zubat was a high point.
1	Stewball	60 _28th
Meh. Maybe now we can move on to something more significant.
1	ewalters	74 _47th
Epic has slowly become run of the mill. Not bad, not good, but stuck in the middle.
1	fenixdown	67 _28th
Lives up to the title. Pretty much nonstop epic battlin'.
1	Okkervil	60 _52nd
Considerably the weakest film of the whole franchise, feeling like what it is; a patchwork of off-cuts and over-extensions. Jackson's shameless and unnecessary drift away from Tolkien has been to the whole series' detriment, but even as a big Tolkien fan it irritates much less than his infuriating obsession with slow-motion close-ups. Dodgy CGI abound, with little plot and some very clumsy scenes, I still actually enjoyed it, particularly the final act. Freeman was a great piece of casting.
1	huertaj	92 _37th
One big battle scene... this movie should be retitled 1001 ways to kill an ork. Would have greatly preferred 2 rather than 3 movies and half the battle scenes.
1	dunetails	60 _38th
The weakest of the franchise.It shouldn't have been made,stretched what little source material they had way too thin.
1	Honest_Thief	3 _31st
It seems Jackson just can't end a trilogy on a high note, instead opting for doubling down on the most aggravating and weaker parts of Return of the King. Occasionally, you get to see a glimmer of Jackson's dark humour, and it's sad that he doesn't show more of that side of him. The warfare, in the Middle-Earth movies, was always at odds with the journey, so it's damning to have a whole movie of nothing but that. At least, it is really pretty to look at.
1	overrated	21 _13th
This felt like watching someone play a RTS game most of the time. Some scattered points for the variety of animals rode or dropped into battle.
1	burakc	75 _47th
Great Epilogue.
1	Kingjohnbbq	50 _9th
I don't see 5 armies. I see an elf army with 1 human in it, a dwarf army and an orc army. the eagles were shown for 2 frames which does not count. the name of the goddamn movie is BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES. I count 3 armies. Too much exposition, nothing to marvel at like in the other movies. whole movie felt rushed to tell us a whole lot of stuff we already knew about and did not need rehashed. also, did rhadaghast have a point? why bring him into the series at all when he amounts to nothing?
1	bentien	71 _79th
Final part of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy is the most thrilling and entertaining. He could definitely have spared some of Legolas' circus tricks, but the peace negotiation, the banishing of Sauron in Dol Guldur, and the climatic fight on the ice show that the Kiwi director still has some of his genius left in him.
1	d_r_e_s_	3 _65th
I hoped this was going to depict the excellent finale to the story of Bilbo Baggins, but unfortunately this adventure ends, with an empty hole in my heart for Middle-Earth. The battle scenes are superbly executed, but takes way too much of the actual runtime. It will definitely be watched again, although it ends up feeling longer and more unfinished than the other two, in spite of being the shorter of the three. For the first time, I'm actually not looking forward to the extended edition. - Good
1	metz	60 _77th
Awesome battle makes it up for all of it. #TeamEagles!
1	Wezzo	54 _6th
The Hobbit films just weren't for me. Five Armies' two predecessors earned 2/5 from me, and so it goes again this time around. It just feels so bloated, so horribly CGI-heavy, so unnecessary a commitment. Watched in 3D HFR, as this is likely the last film widely available in 48fps until.. the Avatar sequels, I guess. But once again, it actively detracted from the experience, feeling more like a frenetic live TV broadcast than a cinematic experience to envelop the viewer. Ah well.
1	burkayadalig	54 _11th
some good battle scenes, but apart from that totally useless...
1	hellboy76	69 _73rd
Pretty much non stop action to the point of almost being tiresome. Dragged down a bit by confirmation that the female elf was in the films only to get her love interest killed and some more cartoony CGI. Still, if you just sit back and watch fighting, it can stand on that merit.
1	asdf83sdhf	35 _20th
Are you kidding me?... How was this so bad? The CGI was rampant and bad. The soft glow in everything was annoying. The pace was odd to get used to. The individual fights were unrealistic and dragged on. I begged for them to end. ... The part were Legolas was stepping on the falling stone bricks... Awful.
1	BeautyBliss	75 _42nd
Captures a decent amount of Lord of the Rings magic without being overly campy.
1	Lord Moe	71 _31st
It has a lot of padding and obvious fan-service, and there are many problems (one of which is making Bilbo even less important) but if you take it on its own it's mildly entertaining. Half in the Bag put it best: it's a very competently made film but it has trouble engaging the audience. Rather unnecessary movie, but by itself it's not bad.
1	guy piranha	50 _24th
i wonder how many millions of dollars martin freeman got for standing around, looking confused and out of place in a movie that's titled after his character. well, at least he was the most relatable one that way. don't get me wrong, there's far worse to mention! but i'm tired now, and not only of poorly scripted, cash grabbing cgi-fests.
1	Daph_NL	60 _68th
This last creation of The Hobbit was still entertaining. However, I felt like there were too many cracks in the story and it didn't feel like it was all there. Perhaps it really isn't that bad for this to be the last of the trilogy... 60/100.
1	lena_c	4 _72nd
I agree in what I've heard several times - there's not enough story for three movies. I love this universe and I was for sure entertained (it's impossible not to be) but this one was just too long with too little to tell. "GOOD" but not "fantastic" just because of what it is.
1	Trooth	59 _29th
Another installment of thinly veiled anti-dwarf pro-elf propaganda from Peter Jackson. Notice how dwarves just can't do a thing in battle without help from their elven superiors.
1	eCitizen	91 _90th
So much to love about this story, and top quality production make this fun and entertaining experience. A nice blend of arrogance, humility, intelligence, greed, sacrifice, honor, duty, bravery and some overly autrocious enemies. Some ridiculous special effects subtracts from an otherwise excellent visual experience. Engaging and entertaining.
1	sheepslasher	1 _12th
Stunningly awful. What the fuck. Time to watch it 500 more times-
1	Barraoc	70 _64th
Shiny, eye-candy visuals, epic battle scenes, and engrossing action set pieces, almost made the lack of story go unnoticed. Nice to see Billy Connolly in there.
1	JLFM	41 _10th
If you're going to put a bunch of rad four-hundred-foot-long worms in your movie, maybe give them more than seven seconds of screen-time? Every minute wasted on Ryan Gage is a minute that could have (and should have) been spent on sweet, brutal worm carnage.
1	suplextrain	70 _51st
Beginning with Smaug and the final battle on the frozen fort are highlights. Everything inbetween is basically just filler you can barely remember.
1	The Pirate	71 _34th
This whole trilogy has been building up to bridging the gap between the Hobbit and LOTR, but here in "the defining chapter" it doesn't even add closure or resolution to half the stuff it brought up! Most of the movie's enjoyability comes only from the fact that it takes place in Middle Earth and has elves, orcs, dwarves, and the battle is pretty much an hour long fantasy blowout.
1	hsncrspywl	67 _41st
Contains a thrilling end to The Desolation of Smaug, and then an entertaining, but over-extended battle sequence which left me impressed with some key moments of cinematography, a few good performances, but there's a lot of filler in that battle too - enough to just pad it out to third-movie length, maybe. That being said, the emotional core of the movie is between Bilbo/Thorin and there's some good moments there. I enjoyed it, but it makes me wonder what only 2 movies could have done.
1	Lightning17	80 _89th
An epic and incredibly entertaining, The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies is literally its title, an epic climactic battle throughout the whole final chapter of Middle Earth. Good performances help with the lack of plot, and ultimately this film is a good ending to the middle earth saga.
1	o_rety	70 _45th
It trades oversentimentality, sticking to some odd threads (like the lickspittle guy), exceptionally great visual design (it's still John Howe and Alan Lee) and being packed with action for an actual story. After stretching it into 3 movies there was no escaping it, I guess.
1	talonmalon	62 _31st
The final Hobbit movie takes a tiny battle from the book, and pads that into a full film, and it shows. The movie feels utterly unnecessary, with non-stop action compromising most of it, along with being stuffed with shameless fanservice. The main character, Bilbo, gets lost in the crowd, but his scenes are good, as is the drama involving Thorin. Ultimately, it's not poorly made, but it is unnecessary, and it proves the idea that The Hobbit never needed to be more than two films, two hours each.
1	selena	85 _41st
love to watch it no matter what...
1	mrarn	68 _88th
Loved the special effects and visual aspects of the movie, but it doesn't stand up as a single movie. The development of the story and characters is done in the earlier movies.
1	patman	45 _15th
Jumps straight into the action and give us some impressive fighting sequences. Unfortunately that's pretty much all there's to it and it gets tiring pretty fast while it doesn't manage to get me truly interested in the characters or the story.
1	whotemp	46 _2nd
I knew it wasn't good going in, but I didn't expect a farce. The writing was a joke - I've never laughed during a serious scene before. Notable failures: a romance shoehorned into 4 minutes, eagles bombing orcs with grizzly bears, Legolas playing super mario in slow motion, Thorin overcoming his gold sickness through hallucinating.
1	Groovy_Souls	70 _56th
As a whole, I still found this great despite its flaws. At times it felt disjointed and that hurt, yet I thought it was a satisfying conclusion. The acting is as always on par, including Bennett. And the cinematography rivals the best of Return of The King and The Desolation of Smaug, my two favorite Middle Earth films. Overall, its story is very flawed and disjointed but it remains a satisfying conclusion.
1	jackdrek	40 _18th
Don't care. The worst of all LOTR. I just felt dead inside whilst watching it. Guess you need to be a massive Tolkein nerd to give a fuck bout this one.
1	amazedemon	81 _97th
The Good: Saruman kicks butt. Inception of battles. Dain Ironfoot. Middle Earth. The Bad: Tauriel gets really really emotional. The Ugly: The orcs and Alfrid.
1	philamental	68 _52nd
Such a disappointing trilogy. Hard to say exactly why it didn't work, but they shouldn't have tried to stretch a differently toned kids book into three lengthy films in the same darker world established in the LOTR films.
1	backwardsuit	36 _5th
What a hangover. It seems like Jackson was messing around in the editing room & accidentally poured the Jgermeister all over the reels with actual story & conclusion. Still this desperate rationalization fails to account for the lack of weight, tension & emotion in the battle scenes. The very things that elevated LotR beyond novel spectacle. The Hobbit fails even at that with increasingly silly, incoherent & overly CGI'd set pieces. Jackson has officially ran out of get-out-of-jail-free cards
1	BasedOne	6 _22nd
Utterly ridiculous in each and every way. From how 1 dwarf can kill forty orcs to a man dressing in drag to steal gold. Thank god it's over.
1	luord	34 _11th
Almost every bad decision that could've been taken regarding this movie was taken; stretching a single battle sequence to almost three hours is just a way to punish the audience for no reason.
1	Pfightmaster	9 _2nd
Fu. Ckin. Aw. Ful. With or without the migrane inducing 48 fps bullshit that, thankfully, never caught on. Fuck this movie.
1	Silent	30 _4th
Just watch the UFC or go to a medieval fair if you want to watch armored people fight it out for 3 hours. The whole film is a 3-hour epilogue.
1	vv238	39 _39th
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy ends with a whimper, which is ironic considering how loud the film tries to be. Look, I know that this was a nightmarish production from start to finish but it's hard to cast Jackson as a victim when he decided to throw out everything Del Toro started and was going out of his way to add production to this simple children's story. The movie itself is a well-executed but drawn-out battle sequence that ends up feeling bloated and dull, not truly bad, just dull.
1	rihrey	28 _23rd
What a way to go. So, this one really went full on stupid mode huh; tiring non-stop mind-numbing action and some sort of script that's both uninspired and messy as fuck. This trilogy really was weak af. I don't think it's terrible, but it is indeed a mediocre/almost bad film. Maybe if they would've spent some more time on the scripts and stories instead of having a fixation for dumb action and cutting heads this trilogy could've turned out to be, at least, decent. Oh, also, they're so long; WHY.

Average Percentile 41.12% from 4816 Ratings