I'm just glad the hobbit trilogy is over

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2014)

So, if you are rushing to Cinema to watch it, take a deep breath and take your time, because mostly your dreams about the movie is more interesting than the movie itself.
In a nutshell, the movie is acceptable, not epic, not great, not amazing, If you compare it to 'The Lord of the rings' trilogy, it's similar to the first part 'The fellowship of the ring' (An introduction part not a final of a trilogy), not as 'The two towers' or the 'Return of the king', Where you get to enjoy a well made epic battles, tying loose ends and make you hope to loose your memory so you can enjoy watching them again for the first time.
The chain of events was more like filling the gaps to connect the past to the future in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, yet it leaves us with loose ends related to the hobbit trilogy.
Good action scenes, but not epic or memorable, a quick scene here and a quick scene there, then it moves you harshly back to the first action scene (Or takes you to a different action scene in the battle) and son on.
A lot of wasted scenes on secondary characters where it should have been used to tie the loose ends for main characters and events, The humor scenes mostly not in the right time and not that laughable.
As for the title 'The battle of the five armies', it should be changed or removed: First, there were no 5 armies, there were 4 armies (If you considered them as an armies in the first place).
Second, when you use the word "Army" you expect something horrific like in "The return of the king", but here they were more like in "Gangs of New York".
Anyway, I enjoyed the ride to the Cinema, the sweet salty popcorn, sound effects is good (Though I watched it in IMAX 3D, so I was expecting a breath taking sound effects).
You can read more reviews here - But they mostly have spoilers - that explain what I said above in details.