Even the Eagles couldn't save this movie

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2014)

The first ten minutes of 'The Battle of Five Armies' starts off where the 'Desolation of Smaug' should have ended. The movie already feels like the second movie, just extended, which is not a good start at all. Once Smaug is dead, the film loses its best character and dialogue and the horrible messy fighting scenes commence. Other than the terrible CGI and side love story, the battle scenes are nothing special and take up the whole movie.
This movie could have turned the Hobbit trilogy from an OK series to a good, watchable marathon series, but instead has turned into a series I might watch at 2 a.m when nothing else is on TV. I'm so surprised Peter Jackson would allow this movie to go on the way it is because he tried way too hard to change the Hobbits true meaning, to something similar to Lord of the Rings and it simply does not work. It's hard to give this a bad review because I tried really hard to believe this series would end on a good note, but I was disappointed and I believe many others were too.