Not quite there... but back anyway *SPOILER*

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2015)

What a dreary load of mawkish pap. If I have to see McKellen doing his puppy-eyes while watching Bilbo have a 'special moment' with someone, one more time, I'll be forced to join Sauron.
The latter half was just one more interminably drawn-out 'final' battle, all devoid of tension and ultimately, pointless. The film does well to highlight the story from the book, and how it isn't really a story. They all converge on the mountain, ostensibly to take the treasure, have an almighty row in which *spoiler* every army suffers huge casualties, the rightful king of the mountain dies, and then Bilbo goes home.
I guess the remnants of the five armies just wander off, whistling tunelessly. I know i did.