Do not watch is you have read the book

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2015)

Given a large sum of money, one would think that literally anyone would be able to make a good movie out the final chapters of the hobbit book. There cannot be a reader alive who has not dreamt of seeing the battle of the five armies on the big screen. The dwarfs, the elves, the the men, the orcs and finally the eagles. How can it fail?
This film fails on so many levels that it defies comprehension. Legolas is randomly here once again, this time paying a pivotal role and appearing in what is undeniably the single most stupid action sequence in any movie in history.
Literally days could be spent detailing what is wrong with this film. It is certainly much easier to state what is right with it. Nothing.
Peter Jackson had the chance to make an amazing trilogy of movies, though frankly 2 movies would have been better. Instead, he has produced a steaming pile of excrement, literally fit for nothing. The only people who even vaguely like this movie, and believe me even just as a movie it really is insanely poor, simply have not read the book.
The only real hope for fans of the book is that this movie is simply so bad that at some point in the near future it will be remade. A decent director could make a good movie from this material so let us hope the studios see it this way too.
You might think you want to watch this movie but believe me, you really do not.