An acceptable ending (minimal spoilers)

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2015)

The battle of the five armies suffers the lack of stuff remaining to tell. As I said, including the whole encounter with smaug in this movie would have been better for this movie. Again, I'm considering the extended edition of the film.
While saying that it's the worst in the middle-earth film saga might make this sound a bad movie, it isn't. It's an enjoyable movie, manages to keep you excited at watching an almost 2 hours long battle (the remaining 40 minutes are the set-up and the ending).
What I noticed is that the extended edition makes two things with the movie: adds some much more gory scenes (really pulpy ones), which I particularly don't like, but also makes you care more about many of the 13 dwarfs. What some people always complained about is that you can't know and love all the 14 main characters of the hobbit trilogy the way you loved the members of the fellowship of the ring. There are various additional scenes that feature some of the dwarfs (including my favourite, the largest dwarf Bombur), some scenes make understand the outcome of the hobbit trilogy better, and so on. The complaint that I heard about the hobbit trilogy being not emotional is nonsense. In this movie I saw many of my family members cry being touched by the ending.
Now ultimately, the finale of the film is again, just as with the desolation of smaug, the reason I didn't give a further high mark. The last scene just doesn't make feel as conclusive as, for instance, the ending of return of the king did. I do understand that it's only the last few minutes of the film that I'm considering, but those weren't conclusive. What gave a bigger feeling of conclusion was the sing in the ending credits instead.