More Transformers than Lord of the rings

Rating: 3/10 (5 February 2015)

After the first Hobbit movie I had high hopes that this trilogy isn't that bad. It was a decent picture. With " The Desolation of Smaug" my hopes and expectations were scaled down, but in my opinion it was okay. Whereas "The Battle of the Five Armies" disappointed me in many ways.
With almost nothing important to tell there are so many scenes just filling the long hours. The ridiculously bad cut relief of Gandalf, about ten attempts of the coward character not to fight in battle or Thorins (well played) struggle with himself also told in to many ways only to be dissolved by talking to himself in a talk to myself- cliché.
With Kili, Fili and Thorin the only three dwarfs die, which I remembered from the first two movies. On one hand that was a good idea to find some emotions in the viewer (someone watched enough game of thrones), but with the unlikely love story, that comes out of nowhere, it was a bit over the top in my opinion.
It is like it always was. Better graphics (which looked very poor and not believable in my opinion) doesn't cover up for bad storytelling. In fact there were so many situations without sense, that the characters had to tell how they feel and what happened and what will happen, so the viewer doesn't miss the turnarounds. (This is Bard. He killed the Dragon. I saw it. Now he is our leader, because our former leader died)
Besides some stupid lines, they had to do, I think that the acting (except for Orlando Bloom as Legolas) was very good and made my giggle some time, although the Jokes were very predictable.
All in all I think, that two movies would have made it well. Everything after Smaugs dead just disturbed me with its trifle.
Oh and Bilbo kills Orcs which are specially described as "created" or "trained" for battle by throwing stones at them. Come on!