Pathetically disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2015)

Peter Jackson's final installment of The Hobbit trilogy is a weak, dull, and remorseless disappointment. The Battle of the Five Armies features a plot of minimal substance, wasted scenes, and poor development on every level. Aside from being the final installment of a fourteen-year production, this film has nothing to boast whatsoever. The directing, writing, cinematography, and visual effects are painfully lazy - still failing to capture the essence of adventure, morality, fellowship, adversity, and character development. Peter Jackson does Tolkien no justice here.
Since The Lord of the Rings trilogy collectively earned 17 Oscars, is highly acclaimed both critically and publicly, and is regarded as one of the most ambitions and successful film productions ever undertaken, it's a wonder that anyone watch this film and restrain themselves from asking what Peter Jackson was thinking. The Hobbit trilogy, while already somewhat lacking based on the first two installments, is now irrevocably inferior to the Middle Earth saga.
The Hobbit could have been a magnificent film production, but crumbled upon its own reckless, lazy, and greedy foundations.