Each scene is squeezed for every ounce of material it can provide, and the result is a film that feels devoid of any passion. While there is interesting material and ideas on its surface, the further into its runtime you get, the more lifeless and hollow the movie feels. Jackson supplemented the trilogy with a lot of material taken from the Lord of the Rings appendices, but even with that, The Battle of Five Armies is an empty shell of a movie. The lack of material to sustain such a lengthy adventure was a major concern for many fans going into the Hobbit trilogy, as the original book is merely 300 pages in length. While the previous two Hobbit films are full of various adventures and different predicaments ranging from stone-trolls to riddles with Gollum and forest spiders to a fire-breathing dragon, The Battle of Five Armies spends most of its time just sitting around an empty mountain while characters debate over what they should be doing instead.
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