The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
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Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
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... Gandalf the Grey
... Bilbo Baggins
... Thorin Oakenshield
... Legolas
... Tauriel
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As there was not much more to be told from the end of the previous movie, just assist to more than 2h of continuous battle.
Quite pointless, but you may enjoy the action if that is what you were looking for ...
Director:
Writer:
J. R. R. Tolkien (Novel)
Guillermo del Toro (Screenplay)
Peter Jackson (Screenplay)
Philippa Boyens (Screenplay)
Fran Walsh (Screenplay)
Release Date:
2014-12-10
Run Time:
144 min
MMPA Rating:
PG-13
Reviews of
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
As there was not much more to be told from the end of the previous movie, just assist to more than 2h of continuous battle.
Quite pointless, but you may enjoy the action if that is what you were looking for ...
The Lord of The Rings are still occupying the three top places of my top ten movies list. Needless to say I am a fan of Tolkien and his Middle Earth fantasy story. I never felt that The Hobbit series could match the original trilogy but then much of the story in The Hobbit is not really Tolkien’s but produced by Hollywood scriptwriters to embellish the story enough to fill three movies. It is not a bad attempt by any means (for being a Hollywood one) but it does not really reach the heights of The Lord of The Rings.
Still, I quite liked these movies. They are good adventure, fantasy, special effects movies. Thus it saddened me when I went to IMDb and the first things I saw was a bunch of people shouting crap and giving it one star reviews. That is just so much rubbish. This is the third movie and it is not vastly different from the others. If you disliked the first ones so much why go and see this one? Also, the harping about not following the book. At this point that is a nonsense argument. It was fairly obvious that it was not going to follow the book in detail when it was announced that there were going to be three movies and if you did not get it then then you should have gotten it from the other two movies. One star ratings looks more like trolling to me.
Anyway, back to the movie itself. I definitely liked this movie better than the second one. It was on par with the first one for me. There was less silly stuff, less stuff that just felt like fillers and the special effects were generally good.
The story and the implementation is, as I wrote, less filled with fillers as the last movie. At least from my point of view. Still though, the story is not at all up to the standard of the original Tolkien works. It shows that it is a Hollywood product that favors effects and quantity before depth and quality. The battle at the end was epic but at the same time somewhat nonsensical in how people ran back and forth clobbering people and beasts right left and center. I did quite like the ramming troll though.
I have to say that I did not like that weasel Alfrid. Sure he was meant to be disliked but he got tiresome rather quickly. He could have been left out after being pushed into the water as far as I am concerned. After that I just got annoyed every time he appeared and I got especially annoyed by the fact that everyone, even Gandalf, seemed to trust him to actually do what he was told. I was hoping all the way to the finishing scenes that he would meet a gruesome end.
On the whole I definitely liked this movie. It had a “Tolkienesque” athmosphere, decent acting, decent story and loads and loads of special effects. Even though it does not reach the heights of The Lord of The Rings it is definitely great entertainment for the fantasy, not to mention special effects, lovers.
Comparing the _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy and the _Hobbit_ trilogy was already like comparing apples and mediocre oranges, but none so mediocre as _Battle of the Five Armies_. Don't get me wrong, I love a "battle" as much as the next guy, more maybe, I don't even mind a movie that's 95% battle, but in this? It does. Not. Work.
_Five Armies_ is a movie that never made it out of pre-viz, let alone to a polished, well-rounded, final cut. I enjoy it to some degree when running through a Middle-Earth marathon as a whole, but only when the group I'm with will let me roll my eyes and complain about it.
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
Exactly what it says on the tin - to a fault.
Don't get me wrong, I like it. However, towards the end 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' definitely begins to drag quite heavily - the impact of what eventually happens did not, to be honest, hit as strongly as it could've/should've. The pure action is good, but there's not much to remember about everything else.
None of the characters, with the exception of Richard Armitage (Thorin) and Luke Evans (Bard) I guess, stand out amidst the wall-to-wall battle. Martin Freeman (Bilb), Ian McKellen (Gandalf) & Co. are are of little importance really, which is a shame.
'The Hobbit' series, unfortunately, gets inferior as it goes by. Loved the first film, enjoyed the second but this third installment - while passable - leaves me with a feeling of wanting something else from it. Happy to have watched them though, I'd still recommend them for sure.
After a singularly slow start to the series and despite the fact that I still can’t quite engage with Martin Freeman’s title character, I reckon that this is the best of the trilogy with some superb visual effects underpinned by a solid and characterful story right from the start. With the marauding “Smaug” breathing fire all over the town, it falls to “Bard” (Luke Evans) to try to save the day. Meantime, “Bilbo” (Freeman) is having to contend with the increasingly megalomaniacal dwarf king “Thorin” (Richard Armitage) who is suffering from a golden equivalent of snow-blindness that is testing the loyalties of his friends and allies alike, risking conflict with the now seriously narked Elven army of “Thranduil” (Lee Pace). With battle lines drawn, a siege looks inevitable and with dwarves and elves at loggerheads there could be only one, sinister and malevolent, winner waiting in the wings. This story is now taking us closer to the realms of the LOTR stories and the overlapping storylines help put much more meat on the bones of many of the characters - a benefit of doing the second story before the first, cinematically. There’s still no getting away from the fact the some of the acting talent here is at best a bit lacklustre and at times the likes of Aidan Turner and Messrs. Freeman, Armitage and Evans make even Orli Bloom look like a potential BAFTA winner. Luckily, though, there are the sonorous dulcets of the imposing Sir Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Sir Christopher Lee to add some gravitas to the stunning photography and effects that complement well the fire-breathing dragon, the swordplay, the building sense of malevolence and mistrust and, of course, the formidable battle scenes with just about everyone from Middle Earth fighting for survival or domination. It’s probably the only one of the triptych that hits the ground running and effortlessly sustains it’s lengthy duration and if you can settle down to watch it on a big screen that does justice to the imagery and to Howard Shore’s musical imagination then this is well worth it.
Cast & Crew of
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Cast
... Gandalf the Grey
... Bilbo Baggins
... Thorin Oakenshield
... Legolas
... Tauriel
... Bard
... King Thranduil
... Smaug / Sauron (voice)
... Balin
... Kili
... Fili
... Dain Ironfoot
... Dwalin
... Bofur
... Master of Laketown
... Alfrid
... Galadriel
... Old Bilbo Baggins
... Saruman the White
... Elrond
... Beorn
... Radagast the Brown
... Gloin
... Oin
... Dori
... Nori
... Bifur
... Bombur
... Ori
... Bain
... Azog the Defiler
... Bolg
... Sigrid
... Tilda
... Soury
... Braga
... Hilda Bianca
... Percy
... Feren
... Keeper of the Dungeons
... Ragash
... Olga
... Astrid
... Lobelia Sackville Baggins
... Otho Sackville Baggins
... Master Worrywort
... Tosser Grubb
... Ragash (voice)
... Creature Voices (voice)
... Creature Voices (voice)
... Creature Voices (voice)
... Creature Voices (voice)
... Creature Voices (voice)
... Old man in laketown
... Laketowner (uncredited)
... Laketowner (uncredited)
... Old Gammidge (uncredited)
... Laketown Refugee (uncredited)
... Girl in Laketown (uncredited)
... Painting of Bungo Baggins (uncredited)
... Laketown Refugee (uncredited)
... Laketown Refugee (uncredited)
... Somber villager (uncredited)
Crew
... Director
... Novel
... Editor
... Sound Recordist
... Makeup & Hair
... Original Music Composer
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Co-Producer
... Executive Producer
... Director of Photography
... Production Design
... Casting
... Casting
... Casting
... Casting
... Casting
... Lighting Artist
... Visual Effects
... Art Direction
... Set Decoration
... Set Decoration
... Set Decoration
... Costume Design
... Costume Design
... Costume Design
... Hairstylist
... Hairstylist
... Makeup Department Head
... Makeup Artist
... Makeup Artist
... Makeup Artist
... Art Department Coordinator
... Assistant Art Director
... Assistant Art Director
... Conceptual Design
... Conceptual Design
... Conceptual Design
... Greensman
... Greensman
... Greensman
... Greensman
... Leadman
... Set Designer
... Scenic Artist
... Set Designer
... Set Designer
... Set Designer
... Foley
... Sound Designer
... Sound Designer
... Sound Effects Editor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... First Assistant Sound Editor
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Conceptual Design
... CG Supervisor
... Animation Director
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... CG Supervisor
... Animation Director
... Animation Director
... Animation Director
... Animation Director
... Animation Director
... Sequence Supervisor
... Animation Supervisor
... Sequence Supervisor
... Sequence Supervisor
... Animation Manager
... Animation Production Assistant
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Editor
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Editor
... Visual Effects Editor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... VFX Supervisor
... VFX Supervisor
... Stunt Coordinator
... Camera Operator
... Still Photographer
... Still Photographer
... Gaffer
... Rigging Gaffer
... Set Costumer
... Set Costumer
... Set Costumer
... First Assistant Editor
... Music Editor
... Music Editor
... Location Manager
... Dialect Coach
... Location Manager
... Dialect Coach
... Unit Publicist
... Stunts
... VFX Artist
... Stunts
... Stunt Double
... Stunts
... Supervising Art Director
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Visual Effects Designer
... Dialogue Editor
... Dialogue Editor
... Dialogue Editor
... Dialogue Editor
... First Assistant Director
... Second Unit Director
... ADR Editor
... ADR Supervisor
... Property Master
... Sound Recordist
... Screenplay
... Screenplay
... Screenplay
... Screenplay
... Stunt Double
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Visual Effects
... Senior Animator
... Animation
... Stunts
... Costume Assistant
... Layout
... Sculptor
... Sculptor
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Makeup Designer
... Hair Designer
... Stunts
... CG Supervisor
... Online Editor
... Propmaker
... Effects Supervisor
... VFX Artist
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Technical Director
... Animation Supervisor
... Animation Supervisor
... Associate Producer
... Associate Producer
... Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
... Supervising Music Editor
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