Very good conclusion of a trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2015)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (2014) is good ending to a trilogy and a fine link to the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. It's spectacular, big, involving and etc. There are a lot of CGI in this movie, and although they weren't really special, they were OK. This is the first movie which wasn't nominated for Oscar in special effects category and you can see why, some of the CGI is not the best that we saw in series, and some shoots are even poor. Nevertheless, they don't distract from the movie - without them it would be impossible to create such a vision. The movie which runs for 2 h 17 min is superbly paced and never drags.
Overall, "The Battle of the Five Armies" is a heavy action oriented installment - there are plenty of action scenes and fights and they pretty spectacular and involving, especially that wight at the end one on one. The end of the battle kinda felt rushed a bit, with no real ending of the battle shown. Nevertheless, this movie is a very fine installment and it delivers. The last scene is love letter to all fans.