skyjedi2005 said:

I was really excited to see Battle of Five Armies really wanted to love the movie.

Well i have finally seen it and it is the worst of all six Jackson Middle Earth movies.

Incredibly bad cgi that is cheap looking. Still looks lifeless and flat like the other two movies because it was shot on video and not film, and the orcs are cgi and there are no bigatures.

Almost all the changes in part three from the book are bad and of no improvement over the source.

Movie looks unfinished barely holds a consistent narrative is severally disjointed like its badly edited. I might give it another chance with the extended, but i am not sure this movie was really tedious and unnecessary.

I feel like they could have easily told the story in two films.

Martin Freeman is totally wasted in the third part. The emotions feel forced and not genuine.

Return of the King was a superior movie in almost every way.

2 and a half stars out of five.

Personally, I was really disappointed that the movie skipped over Thorin's funeral, which is such a great moment in the book.

I'm still hoping that the extended cut will restore it (like Saruman's death scene in the extended edition of ROTK).

However, I really enjoyed all the visual references to Sergei Eisenstein's films. (Thorin is pretty much straight-up dressed in costume as Ivan the Terrible, and his battle on the ice with Azog is a clear homage to Alexander Nevsky.)