Who won and why?

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2014)

The four goes to some actors (Freeman, McKellan, Armitage), desperately saving impossible scenes. The rest is shambles : too many characters who have nothing interesting to do. The movie is, indeed, over after twenty minutes, with Smaug's death.
But this Battle! Technically it's far below the level of the Gondor biggie, and sheer nonsense in itself. The good guys seem to be overwhelmed, losing badly - oh, I get it! they've been waiting for the King to heal miraculously for no reason at all! And lo! twelve little dwarfs with the right spirit make all the difference. But, hey, there's a second army coming! Trouble? Naaah, wait for the aviation (eagles, always there where the script needs them...). They throw some bears at the baddies and here we go.
But apparently, all in all, it wasn't that bad since the town people, who seemed to be massively butchered at the beginning, have survived in numbers.
The movie didn't.