Storyline
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, 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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Cast
Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Ian Holm, Evangeline Lilly, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Jed Brophy, Stephen Fry, Nick Blake, Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, John Bell, Mikael Persbrandt, John Tui, Manu Bennett, Mark Hadlow, Allan Smith, Aidan Turner, Conan Stevens, Ryan Gage, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Dean O'Gorman, Adam Brown, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Sylvester McCoy, Sarah Peirse, Mary Nesbitt, Peggy Nesbitt, Kelly Kilgour, Simon London, Miranda Harcourt, Thomasin McKenzie
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Reviews
80
The final stretch of The Battle of the Five Armies possesses a warm, amiable, sometimes rueful mood that proves ingratiating and manages to magnify the good and minimize the bad of the trilogy.
80
Despite the warmongering title, focusing on the action would be doing The Battle Of The Five Armies a disservice. Even at its most talky, it's compelling stuff, reaping the rewards of characters built-up over two-and-a-bit movies (sometimes more), all of them flawed and with a convincing agenda.
80
A fitting conclusion to Jackson’s prequel trilogy and a triumphant adieu to Middle-earth. Now complete, The Hobbit stands as a worthy successor to The Lord Of The Rings, albeit one that never quite emerges from its shadow.
75
Slant Magazine
These films, and Tolkien's entire oeuvre, are most affecting in their depictions of friendship, and the performances here represent plutonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.
70
If none of the Hobbit films resonate with "Rings'" mythic grandeur, it’s hard not to marvel at Jackson’s facility with these characters and this world, which he seems to know as well as John Ford knew his Monument Valley, and to which he here bids an elegiac adieu.
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