Fresh
Untold manpower, pixels, and money culminate in the gangbusters final installment. It can't redeem the useless tedium of the first two, which exist for gargantuan profits and structural necessity.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Will you follow me... one last time?
2014 · 2h 24m · R
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Peter Jackson
Overview
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, 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.
Director and cast
- Peter Jackson Director
- Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey
- Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins
- Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield
- Orlando Bloom as Legolas
- Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
- Luke Evans as Bard
- Lee Pace as King Thranduil
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
- Ken Stott Cast
- Aidan Turner Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Well, at least there won't be another one for a while.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
It's adequately visionary, it's routinely spectacular, it breathes fire and yet somehow feels room-temperature.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
It plays out as if someone chucked a whole bunch of carefully detailed Warhammer figurines into a centrifuge -- goblins, goats, dwarfs, wizards and wolves bouncing off one another in waves of alternating tedium and punishment.
John Semley, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It's a big, bold, schizophrenic pageant that still manages to work on a surprising number of levels -- creative liberties and indulgences be damned.
John Wenzel, Denver Post
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