BotFA Worths the One Last Time for Middle Earth Saga

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2014)

Being the final installment of The Hobbit's franchise, the film itself does leave some nostalgic impression to the audiences; and having to split it into a long trilogy to build up everything seems to be fine even though the last part is a bit lacking of sub-plots to support the main story. It is the shortest chapter of 144 minutes, starting off straightforward from the happening at the end of Desolation of Smaug, moving immediately to treasure conflicts at Erebor, the not quite strong love triangle between the Elf and Dwarf, and then the unstoppable wars with thrilling action scenes of Legolas and Thorin that last for almost half of the running time. The performance of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins is still promising as his fear, courageous and emotions are strongly inspiring across the trilogy while Richard Armitage also portrays well with his change of behavior as Thorin, the visual effects are undeniable dazzling and stunning, but there is a few part that seems to be just semi-real, not to miss out Howard Shore's scores are awesome as always for all the six entries. While the story line moves in an extreme fast pace with short conversations and it may seems somewhat diverts from the usual tradition of the middle earth saga, The Hobbit trilogy is pleasing at it is, serves a decent connection bridge to Lord of the Ring and the ending with theme song "The Last Goodbye" drives audience's emotion to feel reluctant for farewell. Overall, The Hobbit franchise is worth for one last time although it loses some of the magic compared to Lord of the Ring Trilogy.