Going nowhere in all directions!

Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2015)

I praised the first hobbit because of the differencing factor from the first trilogy that perpetrated it.
The second was a much dark and cumbersome affair, but I thought it good for a "middle" movie.
The fact is, Jackson should have stopped with the second movie by putting the first fifteen minutes of the third in the second, the killing of the dragon, which is all you really need to see from the third movie (yes, 15 minutes out of approximately 130 minutes!).
The rest of The Battle Of Five Armies is a mess, following multiple story lines at one time without ever developing one enough for our entertainment.
Also the actors seem so much not to care, it is horrible. One of the challenge of this new trilogy was to make actors appearing in the first trilogy looks younger. But most appears just the 10 years older that they are. McKellen is poor, Orlando Bloom is unbelievably serious and thigh ass, compared to the free spirit jumping from beast to beast arrow shooter we loved to watch in the first trilogy.
The only actor who seems to care is The Hobbit. Unfortunately he is alone in this new trilogy, and differently to the first two, his voice is not often heard here.....
Even the awesome CGI effect seems force (love that dragon though, but it dies during those fifteen minutes I was talking above)....
Not sure what Jackson would do after this (tintin, bof bof big BOF). But at least he is rich....
Si