So very very annoying

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 2017)

So, not only did Jackson somehow find the way to dilute what basically amounts to 30-40 pages at most in the original book into a 2.5-hour film filled with confused fights, ninja-elves and inconsistent acting: in the end, after more than 8 hours of trilogy, he realized he needed to actually have an ending, so he cooked up a quick one and left a troll-load of unanswered questions behind. Who will rule the dwarven city now that the king is dead? What will happen to the fine folks of Laketown? Who exactly beat the orc army near the town when the king was elsewhere fighting Azog? What happened to that oily character Alfrid - did he manage to escape? On what terms did dwarfs, men and elves leave each other? Beorn came to the rescue with the eagles, kicked some serious orc butt and then.... what? Plus a dozen more subplots left dangling.
If the first movie had left me disappointed and the second one had left me bored, this third and final piece of the puzzle left me just deeply annoyed. A complete waste of resources and beautiful source material. Whatever goodwill Peter Jackson had rightfully gained with the first wonderful trilogy is now forever squandered. And please, let us never see another installment of Legolas again: the elves are immortal, but Orlando Bloom is not, and no CGI in the world can remove the years his face has accumulated.