THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014)
The second movie in this trilogy ends with the dwarfs waking the dragon, Smaug, from his long slumber. (See my previous posts on the other two deliveries of the Hobbit-trilogy.) Angered by their apparent arrogance, he then bursts from the mountain in a fit of rage. This second sequel picks up where the previous one left off. Smaug all but destroys Lake-town before he is brought down by one brave warrior. What is left of the survivors scamper to dry land near the foot of the dwarfs newly conquered mountain kingdom. Word of the treasure the dwarfs liberated from the dragon soon spreads throughout the land and every Tom, Dick and Harry want to lay their hands on it.
What follows (which basically takes up the major part of the movie) must be one of the longest ongoing battle scenes ever filmed...ever!
Although everything is done in most spectacular fashion, in the end you feel a bit cheated as there is not much of a story to it all. It is more like individual score settling between different old enemies. After a while it becomes a bit confusing as you are no longer sure who is fighting whom and why. Sure, the PC game generation may find it exciting but for us movie buffs used to at least some sort of plot development, it is a real disappointment. Therefor I cannot give it more that 2 out of 5 stars.
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Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage
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