A great build up but the "climactic"ending fell short

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2014)

I remember the days when I was just a kid in my brother's room, watching LoTR on VCR and boy was it amazing! The whole reason I love Middle Earth were because of the movies that Peter Jackson made. Now, when news spread out about Peter Jackson making a Hobbit movie, i was very excited! I was excited about the moments between Bilbo and the many main Characters (Smaug, Smeagol, Thorin etc) but most of all the Battle of Five Armies.
Now, in some ways these expectations were met throughout the trilogy. However, the added fillers and the cutting of important roles really affected the movie(s) overall.
The last movie of the Hobbit Trilogy doesn't improve on any of this at all. Furthermore, the movie is trying to be too many things at once, it cant decide to be either a light hearted fantasy movie or a serious (LoTR) style movie and the movie(s) suffer because of that.
SPOILERS!!!
Lets get to the positives of this movie because there are some.
Pros:
The relationship between Bilbo and Thorin is done amazingly well. The chemistry between the characters and the "feels" you get are great! You really feel Thorin change as a character and how he is in many ways similar to heroes in Shakespeare where they do have weakness and evil in them. However, there isn't enough of this in the movie and I wish there was more as these moments were my favorite in the movie.
Smaug destroying Laketown was a spectacle to behold, it really was a beautifully made action scene. The massive size of Smaug, with the assistance of Bennedict Cumberbatch with his voice really made the scene that much better. However, the scene was a bit short, especially since we had to wait 2 full Hobbit movies to actually get to it, it really just felt anticlimactic due to all the suspense that the other Hobbit movies put on this one sequence.
Cons:
Dwarf and Elf as a relationship DOESN'T WORK!!! There were so many moments where I would just cringe (not because of the acting) but because of how poorly written the romance was.
Is this a movie that is supposed to be taken seriously like LoTR or is it supposed to be more "fun" because obviously the movie cant decide between the two. At moments the movie is "serious" trying to link this trilogy with the LoTR trilogy using more "realistic" gritty scenes, similar to LoTR. But then there are "funny" scenes that in no way help link this movie to LoTR. There are scenes where (similar to the barrel riding in Desolation) it's so unrealistic that it's stupid. For example there was Thorin's cousin who would literally head butt his enemies...like wtf? or when Thorin and his cousin would literally in the middle of the war shake hands and have greetings...
The last Con would be the war itself...it was such a disappointment. Beorn gets literally 5 secs of screen time, the main fights between Thorin, Filli, Killi, Azog etc are separated from the actual war unlike LoTR. this really just kills the moment of an actual war for me. Oh and they don't use rams to break through walls.....they use trolls with big metal helmets that head butt themselves into the wall.....are u serious? ha ha funny...
Due to the Redeeming qualities of this movie, i would give it a 6/10 but I would still recommend to give this movie a try.