Product Details
Genres : Fantasy, Adventure
Director : Peter Jackson
Starring : Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman
Supporting actors : Richard
Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James
Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter
Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline
Lilly, Lee Pace, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving
Studio :
Warner Bros.
MPAA rating : PG-13
(Parental Guidance Suggested)
Captions and
subtitles : English
Rental rights :
24 hour viewing period.
Purchase rights : Stream
instantly and download to 2 locations
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
First off, I'm an absolute Middle Earth fanatic,
both on the literary page and on the screen (I've seen and read it all,
literally). This is my personal perspective on The Hobbit: The Battle of
the Five Armies. And if you visit the comment section, I'll detail
what's in the EXTENDED EDITION. So stick with me, dear reader, because
this review could be long and fraught with emotion. Let us begin! IMO,
BATTLE might just be the best of the Hobbit trilogy. The fans of the
book will get their emotional moments, their classic Tolkien lines, and
their respect treated seriously, while Peter Jackson reclaims his throne
as the living King of Epic, with the Wagnerian grandeur, big feels, and
visual splendor he does so well.
From the opening moments,
wherein Smaug the Terrible rains down an unholy blitzkrieg of dragonfire
on unsuspecting Laketown, BATTLE sets a snappy pace and only lets up
long enough for you to gasp in awe or dab a tear from your eye. BATTLE
is at once the most epic and the most personal of the trilogy. The
Company of Thorin have now captured Erebor and are sitting upon a
massive hoard of dragon gold. Drawn by riches and power, the forces of
good and evil converge upon the Lonely Mountain. War between elves,
dwarves, men, and orcs looms fell on the horizon even as darkness creeps
into the heart of Thorin Oakenshield, and the Dark Lord Sauron looks to
make a comeback.
Customer Reviews
Story : The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
concludes the epic journey of Bilbo Baggins of the Shire and his legion
of Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield, under the guidance of Gandalf the
Wizard, with a powerful, emotional finish. It begins right where part II
left off, and wastes little time building towards the incredible war
that is about to take place for the treasures of the Lonely Mountain.
Thorin
must decide if he should live in his Grandfather's footsteps and horde
all of the gold that is rightfully his, or listen to his solemn friends
at the end of their dangerous journey to reclaim their home. The Bard
and his townsfolk want only enough of the treasure to rebuild their fire
scorned town, while the Elves want their cut of the diamonds, and yet
the Orcs and Goblins, led by Azog the Defiler, wish to claim this
Mountain fortress for its strategic position in the land, under their
master Sauron, who is confronted by Galadriel, Gandalf, Elrond and
Saruman. When the Dwarf army enters the fray, war becomes inevitable
despite the pleas of the burglar Hobbit, Bilbo and his golden ring of
invisibility. Tamriel (smoothly weaved into the story and an original
character not in the J.R.R. Tolkien Book) lends her support along with
the expert marksman Legolas, as she must decide if Kili, the Dwarf she
is taken with, will be worth pursuing during this great war.
