As a fan of the books I already know the answer, but the movie didn't really care to explain this important part of the story. Armies is fine, I suppose. Once again the fantastic cast, stunning score, mind blowing effects and sheer beauty envelope you into the world of Middle Earth and I was gripped. If I had not read the book, I'd get really annoyed after watching this movie and not knowing what had happened to them. Beorn and Radagast are given literally seconds of screen time; and for the first time in this prequel trilogy, a whole chapter The Return Journey is pretty much elided entirely.
The story culminates beautifully and if you can get past the many changes that were made you'll see the finale of a wondrous tale and a battle on screen that blew me away. The amazing cast of this trilogy did the best they could with the awful script they were given, and I'm thankful for that. In my spare time I travel to the netherworlds to battle demons. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands. Which brings me to my second point.
Otherwise you're probably someone like me and you'll leave the theater disappointed and grieving over the characters you love so much. Jackson has his fun now and again, but rarely in a way that yanks the viewer out of the immersive visual experience. I felt that those were refreshing changes of mood, and they are burnt into my mind - Legolas sliding down the stairs on a shield while shooting orcs, Legolas bringing down the Oliphants, Gimly being thrown over to the bridge at Helm's Deep. Please don't think this is the case in general. The Battle of the Five Armies is the weakest entry in The Hobbit trilogy, which also happens to make it the weakest film in Jackson's six-chapter Rings saga.
Colors are largely bleak and wintry, with searing skies and ominous shadows framing a rather stark image, gray, blue and purple tones dominating the palette throughout the film's titular battle, and high contrast whitewashing a number of overcast scenes. We get to see some familiar faces face-off with this faceless monstrosity. Come on, the entire battle was about the gold. Ryan Gage's Alfrid is in the mix for. Meanwhile, Gandalf is rescued from the Necromancer's prison and his rescuers realize who the Necromancer is.
Thorin Oakenshield Benedict Cumberbatch :. Those two movies soon got changed into three and I was angry because I was convinced the story was too short for three three-hours-long movies. Thorin was presented at first as this trilogy's Aragorn. I think Peter Jackson forgot that this story is called The Hobbit because Bilbo is supposed to be the main character, not Thorin. On the one hand, it was great popcorn cinema in that it was very much entertaining and, of course, visually striking. The signal towers used by the orcs and goblin hordes to coordinate field movements are an especially subtle but nice touch. What happened to the people of Lake-Town? The bulk of the battle expands outward, along fields strewn with corpses, and far into the distance with convincing, occasionally breathtaking depth of field.
Come on, the entire battle was about the gold. Dragons roar, fires rage, arrows fly, magic surges, swords clash, axes fall, iron meets steel, trolls crash through walls, towers topple, buildings collapse, Were-worms erupt from the ground, wargs snarl, dwarven shields form walls, elves leap into the fray, orcs and goblins charge to their deaths, and Thorin and his allies go toe to toe with all manner of beast, monster and villain. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. After the Dragon leaves the Lonely Mountain, the people of Lake-town see a threat coming. I'd like to be clear on my admiration for what Peter Jackson has done with The Hobbit so far. Characters we've come to love or loathe arc into nothing; others e.
For The Battle of the Five Armies, it may - I hope - be transformative. The Hobbit was a book written for children, and while there are scenes in the trilogy that will definitely be fun for children the dwarfs offering a lot of those kinda scenes , the violence and amount of killing and cut off heads make me wonder how suitable the movie really is. Reparto: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom, Aidan Turner, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Ryan Gage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, James Nesbitt, Jed Brophy, Stephen Hunter, John Callen, Adam Brown, Dean O'Gorman, William Kircher, Peter Hambleton, Mark Hadlow, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Billy Connolly, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Ian Holm, Sylvester McCoy, Manu Bennett Después de haber recuperado el reino del Dragón Smaug en la montaña, la Compañía ha desencadenado, sin querer, una potencia maligna. In my opinion it's ridiculous to cut something like that out because they were basically the main characters. The Weta Workshop visual effects are uncharacteristically weak, looking like the product of a throwback '80s fantasy rather than a film with a multi-million dollar budget. Also, the very last scene was exactly like I imagined it would be, with Ian Holm's Bilbo and Gandalf knocking on the door.
I'm still giving this movie a 4 out of 10 though, because I absolutely love the cast and I think they did a brilliant job, especially Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman. But over time we've learned of the dangerous pride that ruined his grandfather. Earlier this month there was a that the Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies would be rated R. It's the one time we really glimpse that signature Jackson oddness, in a wonderful hallucinatory sequence where Thorin imagines he's sinking in a lake of gold. If the unnecessary Dol Guldur scenes and the Tauriel storyline were skipped, every good part from the book which is now cut out would have easily fit in. Could this be the last lingering consequence of dividing The Hobbit into three filler- riddled chapters? Meanwhile, Gandalf is rescued from the Necromancer's prison and his rescuers realize who the Necromancer is.