The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the final film in the three-part trilogy, and from what reviewers are saying, it appears the fans of Middle Earth are going to get their just reward.
However, we should point out that despite the praises from critics, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a flawed film in many ways, and is currently sitting around a 70 percent rating on RottenTomatoes. This is not good for Peter Jackson's final act in Middle Earth, but we're sure Warner Bros. will be pleased with the ticket sales come Dec. 17, 2014.
Here are what some critics have to say about the film:
"The result is at once the trilogy's most engrossing episode, its most expeditious (at a comparatively lean 144 minutes) and also its darkest - both visually and in terms of the forces that stir in the hearts of men, dwarves and orcs alike. Only fans need apply, but judging from past precedent, there are more than enough of them to ensure that Battle walks off with the dragon's share of the upcoming holiday-season box office." - Variety: Scott Foundas.
"There's a little too much padding in the final Hobbit flick, and the best sequence is without doubt the film's first. But the central battle is indeed spectacular, and as The Age of Orc approaches, it rounds out this particular story in stirring and emotional fashion." - IGN: Chris Tilly.
"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." - The Independent: Geoffrey Macnab.
"Five Armies is a carefully controlled circus of freaks, marvels, grotesqueries, and high-flying pageantry. And like any circus, we're there to gasp and to laugh, but not to feel. The Hobbit movies have taken us there and back again, and I'm mostly just relieved the journey is now over." - The Wrap: Inkoo Kang.
You know, we wished Warner Bros. had decided to make The Hobbit a single film, because so far, every film in the trilogy is overrun with fillers to length them out. A small book spanning three movies; how does that even work? Clearly it doesn't.
