The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014) Review

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies is great at times, but is ultimately not the conclusion we hoped for. The actual battle is breathtaking, exciting, long, and certainly deserves a place in the greatest battles of the Tolkien saga, but it's all the hobbit conclusion has to offer. As suggested by the trailer the movie was much darker than it's prequels, which wiped out an humor from the film. The movie is also too short, and lacks the adventure of the other hobbit films, which really defined those ones. Without adventure and humor, Hobbit 3 isn't a fun, feel-good blockbuster that it should have been, and while it is a good movie, it misses too much and is certainly the worst middle-earth has to offer. Middle-Earth films can't settle for good when audience expects greatness out of them.
Movie Rating: B+

Also, some characters lost great amounts of screen time.