The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - DVD review

Directed by Peter Jackson, 2014

Warner

Another year, another army of steaming, blood-ravenous orcs.

As Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth trilogy draws to its conclusion, a certain battle-weariness sets in - and not just among Bilbo and his posse of hairy adventurers.

Although there are terrific set-pieces and dazzling sequences in this closing instalment, as well as a splendid pipe-sucking scene with Gandalf and Bilbo, the film is a long slog and feels a little jumbled (you might find yourself asking afterwards, for instance, who exactly were the five armies?).

The end, when it eventually arrives, does so not with a sense of regret, but relief.

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