The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, review:
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, is released on December 12, and stars Martin Freeman as hobbit Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellan as the wizard Gandalf, and Richard Armitage as dwarf Thorin Oakenshield. In his two star review, The Telegraph's Tim Robey described the film as "a paragraph on steroids", writing that it was "neither very terrible nor remotely unexpected. It’s a series of stomping footnotes in search of a climax."
Here's our round up of what the other critics said. ...
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"We get the sense that Jackson is struggling to drag himself away for the last time from a kingdom to which he has devoted so much of his working life and that he can't quite work out how to make a tidy exit. Nonetheless, for all its loose ends, The Battle Of The Five Armies is the strongest, boldest film in the Hobbit trilogy and provides just the send off that the series deserves."
"...a fitting cap to an extended series that, if nothing else, has transformed Tolkien’s place in the wider culture. His books were once strictly for spotty teen nerds (I think we’ve all been there), and while The Battle of the Five Armies is unlikely to repeat the Oscar sweep that greeted the conclusion of Jackson’s first Tolkien trilogy, in truth it is just as enjoyable as each of the five films that came before it."
