Friday 12 December 2014

Film Review: Hobbit 3 Battle of the five armies

Genre: Adventure | Fantasy 

Cert: 12A

Director: Peter Jackson,

Screen writer: Fran Walsh (screenplay) &  Philippa Boyens  (screenplay) &
 Peter Jackson (screenplay) &  Guillermo del Toro (screenplay) J.R.R. Tolkien  

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch , Lee Pace , Evangeline Lilly,  Luke Evans , Richard Armitage,  Cate Blanchett , Orlando Bloom , Martin Freeman , Ian McKellen , Manu Bennett ,Aidan Turner ,  Hugo Weaving , Dean O'Gorman , Christopher Lee , James Nesbitt , Billy Connolly , Graham McTavish , Stephen Fry , Mikael Persbrandt , Ken Stott , Ian Holm , Sylvester McCoy many more......

Running time: 144 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: None

Violence & Gore: Official MPAA Rating: PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images. Intense battle violence. -Dismemberment. -Slashing and stabbing with swords.

Profanity:  Note: The Battle of The Five Armies does not use any kinds of strong language like the Lord of The Rings trilogy so there's nothing to worry for something strong since it would be too unusual speaking in the world of Middle-Earth from the vision of Peter Jackson.
Although there is one brief use of "hell" in a sentence but not as a profanity at all only as a metaphor for an army approaching to the kingdom. And there is one brief use of "bastards" as well. There could appear some insults from the Orcs but nothing relevantly big to worry.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Gandalf can be seen smoking his pipe and another time when he prepares to smoke it.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Peter Jackson has confirmed this will be the darkest of all Hobbit films in the trilogy, leading up to the dark tone of Lord Of The Rings.



Story: Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth only to face alot more than they hope to with sauron forces.

Likes : Out of all the lord of the ring film this one is by far the one that just over shadowed return of the king's final battle scene with some of the best direction battle sequence in a film ive seen yet. The hype this film has got seriously living up to every moment the intense moments, the emotional scene that even had me in tears peter Jackson delivers on a epic scale to bring us a lord of the rings film that fit perfect with the fellowship of the ring storyline.
Throughout out these hobbit film they just step their game up with bettering  the storyline with these epic moments, with the first hobbit film its was slightly missing a few things but the extended version made it better, then peter did the second ive got to say Benedict Cumberbatch has done one of the most epic voice over ever with Smaug, not only did the animation team do a brilliant job with the c.g.i Benedict voice just brings this dragon to life, still with the third & final film he still look awesome & terrifying.
Not alot of people have given this guy credit for paying one of the most outstanding performance in a lord of the rings throughout all three film playing the dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield. Richard Armitage is a fantastic actor that as show true acting skill with showing true emotion & anger of the character thats lost his home & anger toward those that turn his back on him, in this third film his actor is just outstanding & inspiration showing courage even in the darkness hour.
Martin Freeman as done an awesome job throughout all 3 films with the younger bilbo baggins show the live & struggle from when he was younger with a few surprises that reveals in this third film which i liked, very sneakily put in to the storyline.
Luke Evan really come in to his own in this film as it let the character shine a bit more as we dont really see much of him in the second film, in this film he character show more of who bard is as a person, Luke Evan brilliant performance bring this out.
As for the storyline itself it well directed & well written to show emotion & intense battle's that the 3rd act of the film is one of the longest battle scene ever, but its done in such an epic way you gripped to the screen watch it as they are attack from all sides. Which add to the intensity & emotional moments, be-warned as this is a darker story that will fit in with the fellowship of the ring most of the characters will die, i wont say which ones your have to watch the film to find out but it one of the emotional scene in the series of lord of the rings films that even i cried over.
One scene im very impressed is the scene with sauron just an outstanding epic scene to be film, im glad they put that in because it had to the darkness & power that sauron commands these scene along with the rest of the film just adds to the saga with another outstanding fantasy film, although it sad that this will be the last film of the saga, this is a series of film that everyone will remember in 50 years time.
What would make these film even better is if someone dose the story before sauron became evil just to give this saga more of a back story like a prequel to the lord of the rings & the hobbit, but this is a film i highly recommend watching, weather you watch this is 3D IMAX i still got a great view in normal 2D screening.

Dislikes : The only thing that is missing in this film (Spoiler Alert) there is no scene on how or why Saruman switch side this kind of left open maybe this will be revealed in the Dvd extended version not sure but i feel this should have been put in the film to explain why he switch side that my only complaint about the film.

Overall : Outstanding battle scenes, emotional moments, & intense & dark worth watching in 3D OR 2D screening.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 9.5 out of 10 for concept / battle scenes




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