The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
The Hobbit and his clique are closer than ever to their dream, but the Orc armies were lurking, whether Thor Oakenshield would successfully regained his kingdom or not.
15 April 1979, Pontypool, Wales, UK
1 December 1976, Auckland, New Zealand
1996
6 July 1966, England, UK
28 August 1968, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
4 September 1997, UK
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
7 November 1979
3 June 1974, Sheffield, England, UK
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
31 August 1962, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
13 January 1977, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
19 June 1983, Ireland
10 October 1969, Rotorua, New Zealand
3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
14 May 1969, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
September 20, 2016
Without a single narrative throughline sufficiently weighty to justify the continued involvement of most of the main characters, just about everyone besides Thorin kind of... bops around.
December 19, 2014
Well, at least there won't be another one for a while.
December 18, 2014
Mindless CGI spectacle overpowers every aspect of Peter Jackson's concluding Tolkien adaptation; like the other installments of this lumbering trilogy, it's more tech-demo than movie.
July 14, 2016
For nearly 2.5 interminable hours, The Battle of the Five Armies throws waves of computer-generated elves and computer-generated dwarves against computer-generated orcs.
April 25, 2017
With impressive battle scenes, unbeatable effects, good performances and a sustained emotional tension, Jackson managed to give a dignified closure to his interpretive meddling in Middle-earth. [Full review in Spanish]
December 19, 2014
Untold manpower, pixels, and money culminate in the gangbusters final installment. It can't redeem the useless tedium of the first two, which exist for gargantuan profits and structural necessity.
December 18, 2014
It's adequately visionary, it's routinely spectacular, it breathes fire and yet somehow feels room-temperature.
February 24, 2017
The Battle of the Five Armies is a lot more of the same, substituting mindless, even dull action at the expense of character development [...] there is just enough here to be passable, and it completes The Hobbit trilogy on a mostly positive note.
June 01, 2016
It's too long, too dreary, unnecessarily convoluted and while a technical marvel it simply doesn't engage the emotions at all.
December 18, 2014
It's a big, bold, schizophrenic pageant that still manages to work on a surprising number of levels -- creative liberties and indulgences be damned.
June 21, 2016
The parallel universe of men, half-men, dwarves, monsters, wizards, evil spirits, and benign forces has been deeply satisfying, but it needn't consume a lifetime.
December 18, 2014
It plays out as if someone chucked a whole bunch of carefully detailed Warhammer figurines into a centrifuge -- goblins, goats, dwarfs, wizards and wolves bouncing off one another in waves of alternating tedium and punishment.
