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The The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Director: Peter Jackson

With: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Ian McKellen, etc. New Zealand, USA 2014 (144 min)

At the risk of finding a unicorn’s head in the bed: Excuse, but now I am so terribly tired of Gurgalol, Mongo Snorskrävlaren and whatever they are called – I see yet another misty Enyaackompanjerad castle ruins (“perfect for the handy”) I answer not for the consequences.

The only consolation is that Peter Jackson do not follow the Twilight and Hunger Games track and divide the final part two. On the other hand, he has by now made a total of eight hours of footage of a little over 300 pages of children’s books.

Some of the disappointment around Femhäraslaget because the last – last year’s The Desolation of Smaug – represented a considerable boost in comparison with the initial An unexpected trip from 2012.

The first movie was mainly about how Bilbo a night got unexpected visit in the form of 13 dwarves depicted by a perpetual long, painfully jovial and closest Ronja-buxom scene that took several months to debriefea out. This was followed by a bearded long walk where they led by Thorin Oakenshield in the company of Gandalf went to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug the dragon. The main draw here was Gollum (more touching / obnoxious than ever before – or after, then this course takes place before the Lord of the Rings trilogy), only topped by Storvättens striking resemblance to Freddie Wadling.

But so had gratifyingly much of anything slapstick-like tjo and tjim cleared away in the sequel where anhanget continued walking towards his former kingdom.

The Desolation of Smaug was constantly high pace through the majestic scenery, occasionally closest Indiana Joneskt entertaining with giant spiders and rafting in barrels – fun, fast-paced and moderately frivolous. It took Peter Jackson also the liberty to introduce a completely new, female character: alvkrigaren Tauriel, a master of killing orcs in the otherwise almost one hundred percent male cast.

How are we then arrive at the end of the chapter. Or rather the final battle, for it is what it is all about from beginning to end. Drake against Esgarotbor, dwarves against elves and humans, eagles and even more dwarves, all the orcs – hordes of Data animated armies where it eventually most feels like you are watching when someone is in the middle of a MMORPG games and you do not dare ask who is on whose side with the risk of getting a ostbåge in the head.

Or rather; they do not care. Tiresome, repetitive and gruesome uninvolved. Almost as that lacks that småputtriga Bilbo life where Martin Freeman like an unusually large and lurvfotad The Office Tim engaged Wernham Hogg-mimicry when he smokes a pipe in Teletubbyland. Almost.

This Mikael Per Brandt participation thought first I did not even mention since it has already been pointed well many times how little his Beorn is visible in the image. However, I would point out that the phrase that he’s in about three seconds is just silly. It is about max one.