The worst of a long drawn out trilogy!!

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2014)

This movie is one of the reasons I hate the modern blockbuster. Thin storyline, Little character development, Unrealistic CGI and the ever increasingly common splitting of a minimal story line into more than 1 movie to maximize profits. The Hobbit Battle of the 5 armies ticks all these boxes to become one of the worst blockbusters of all time.
And the audience love it. Storyline isn't important if you've got CGI battles that look like the cut scene from a video game. The whole film was CGI. It seemed like they just used the actors faces on a CGI hobbit body on a CGI horse in a CGI landscape with one shot of a hill in New Zealand.
While I was literally asleep through a fair bit of the movie my friend loved it! And if we asked him about say..
"the 10 different characters we were barely introduced to but were forced to see a 10 minute battle scene of.. Or the ridiculous plot holes and unanswered questions such as why did giant worms appear and then disappear with no explanation at all? Why didn't we see what happened to the gold? And what happened to Bilbo Baggins furniture at the end?"
he would respond with "But those graphics were amazing!". This just shows why all Hollywood blockbusters are investing in CGI rather than a decent plot. This would explain films like The Avengers, Avatar and Guardians of the galaxy. These films are an example of why I've begun to hate blockbusters. If you could only view this film in 360p on your old box TV this would get much much poorer ratings. Blockbusters like the original star-wars trilogy were first watched in those specs and the plot and character development drove those movies. These are just excuses to have long winded battle scenes