The Hobbit Battle of The Five Armies review

The Hobbit Battle of The Five Armies review

Honest review by me

 

                As a big fan of middle-earth saga and Tolkien I wanted to review this movie  a few weeks ago when I first watched it in December 2014, but I didn’t have time so I decided to re-watched it again last night to refresh my memory, so here we go. The Hobbit Battle of The Five Armies is the last installment in the hobbit trilogy. The story continued after the company of the Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and one Hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) managed to drive out Smaug the dragon away from Erebor. Smaug with his fury decided to destroy Lake Town not far from Erebor and the people of Lake Town must face the cause of Smaug’s anger. However another problem appeared, forces from many directions turned their eyes to Erebor with their own purposes.

                This is my less favorite movie of the trilogy, I was expecting more. Firstly let me point out that this movie lacked emotional moments. The moments that supposed to be emotional were not executed well enough. The main battle tried to be grand and epic but sadly it wasn’t, instead I cringed several times due to the cartoonish CGI and over-the-top action scene not to mention the battle itself was forgettable. The Lord of the Rings has over-the-top action scene granted but it’s still believable to me as it is a fantasy movie. You know a fantasy movie is questionable if even a big Fantasy fan and Tolkien fanboy like me says nope.

Fortunately the sound effect, acting, and scoring of this movie were great. Richard Armitage shined in this movie as his character showed greed and being a douchebag to others. He delivered his character nicely. My favorite character Bilbo didn’t have much screen time in this last movie (kinda ironic) but when Martin Freeman had it, he delivered it perfectly. However my favorite scene was when the white council confronted Sauron and his minions and there was a nice battle between Galadriel (Cate Blanchet), Saruman (Christopher Lee) and Elrond (Hugo Weaving) versus the Nine shortly after they succeeded rescuing Gandalf (Ian McKellen). Gandalf played big part in this movie as he should be and Sir Ian, well as usual he IS Gandalf so no one questioned his acting. The sound effect and scoring when Smaug attacked Lake Town were very addictive. The rest of the movie didn’t hold a candle to its previous installment The Desolation of Smaug. As a whole this movie was only a little bit better than average, sadly I have to be honest Peter Jackson lost his touch this time.

By Arwadi M