It does what it says on the (title-changed) tin - five armies battle - and it does it most effectively. Whilst The Desolation of Smaug ended not so much on a cliffhanger as crowd-baiting expectation, the final part of the film trilogy picks up where its predecessor left off, and interestingly in retrospect it might have been more effective to have seen through Smaug's attack on Lake Town fully at the end of the previous film. All the characters are given a suitable airing, Martin Freeman's work should not be underestimated here, and there is fine work from Evangeline Lily, Aidan Turner and Richard Armitage. It is a relatively lean film with good momentum, and it is thankfully bereft of a more-farewells-than-Frank-Sinatra ending, which links to the Rings trilogy beautifully. For all its good work, The Hobbit films will never quite stand up against the Rings trilogy, but this final Hobbit film rounds off the series very successfully.
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