The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

"Will you follow me... one last time?"

2014 2h 24m EN

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★7.3TMDB · 15,836

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Synopsis

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Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

“Will you follow me... one last time?”

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Cast

Ian McKellen
Gandalf the Grey
Martin Freeman
Bilbo Baggins
Richard Armitage
Thorin Oakenshield
Orlando Bloom
Legolas
Evangeline Lilly
Tauriel
Luke Evans
Bard
Lee Pace
King Thranduil
Benedict Cumberbatch
Smaug / Sauron (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro
Languages: English
Countries: New Zealand, United States of America

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MONEY

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Budget of $250M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.

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ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: New Zealand, United States of America.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "The Hobbit Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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228+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Peter Jackson, shot by Andrew Lesnie. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Howard Shore. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Peter Jackson directs. Andrew Lesnie behind the camera. Howard Shore scores. Jabez Olssen cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in New Zealand, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Budget of $250M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.
2Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.
3Released 12 years ago.
4International production across 2 countries: New Zealand, United States of America.
5Part of the "The Hobbit Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6228+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Peter Jackson, shot by Andrew Lesnie. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Howard Shore. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Jabez Olssen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Will you follow me... one last time?".
12IMDB entry: tt2310332 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1315,836 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 24 themes, including "gold", "corruption", "based on novel or book", "elves".
15Released under 36 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Andrew Lesnie
Original score: Howard Shore
Editing: Jabez Olssen
Production design: Dan Hennah
Costume design: Ann Maskrey
Makeup / hair: Flora Moody
VFX supervisor: Romy Webster
Sound: Michael Hedges
Stunt coordinator: Glenn Boswell
Runtime: 144 min · 2h 24m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $250,000,000
Box office: $956,019,788
Return: 382% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Awards

Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film

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Part of

The Hobbit Collection

The Hobbit collection is a three-part epic fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name. The trilogy of films are set in Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings", and will act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Andres Gomez2015-02-06
★ 5/10
As there was not much more to be told from the end of the previous movie, just assist to more than 2h of continuous battle. Quite pointless, but you may enjoy the action if that is what you were looking for ...
Dark Jedi2018-01-06
★ 9/10
The Lord of The Rings are still occupying the three top places of my top ten movies list. Needless to say I am a fan of Tolkien and his Middle Earth fantasy story. I never felt that The Hobbit series could match the original trilogy but then much of the story in The Hobbit is not really Tolkien’s but produced by Hollywood scriptwriters to embellish the story enough to fill three movies. It is not a bad attempt by any means (for being a Hollywood one) but it does not really reach the heights of The Lord of The Rings. Still, I quite liked these movies. They are good adventure, fantasy, special effects movies. Thus it saddened me when I went to IMDb and the first things I saw was a bunch of people shouting crap and giving it one star reviews. That is just so much rubbish. This is the third movie and it is not vastly different from the others. If you disliked the first ones so much why go and see this one? Also, the harping about not following the book. At this point that is a nonsense argument. It was fairly obvious that it was not going to follow the book in detail when it was announced that there were going to be three movies and if you did not get it then then you should have gotten it from the other two movies. One star ratings looks more like trolling to me. Anyway, back to the movie itself. I definitely liked this movie better than the second one. It was on par with the first one for me. There was less silly stuff, less stuff that just felt like fillers and the special effects were generally good. The story and the implementation is, as I wrote, less filled with fillers as the last movie. At least from my point of view. Still though, the story is not at all up to the standard of the original Tolkien works. It shows that it is a Hollywood product that favors effects and quantity before depth and quality. The battle at the end was epic but at the same time somewhat nonsensical in how people ran back and forth clobbering people and beasts right left and center. I did quite like the ramming troll though. I have to say that I did not like that weasel Alfrid. Sure he was meant to be disliked but he got tiresome rather quickly. He could have been left out after being pushed into the water as far as I am concerned. After that I just got annoyed every time he appeared and I got especially annoyed by the fact that everyone, even Gandalf, seemed to trust him to actually do what he was told. I was hoping all the way to the finishing scenes that he would meet a gruesome end. On the whole I definitely liked this movie. It had a “Tolkienesque” athmosphere, decent acting, decent story and loads and loads of special effects. Even though it does not reach the heights of The Lord of The Rings it is definitely great entertainment for the fantasy, not to mention special effects, lovers.
Gimly2019-01-20
★ 5/10
Comparing the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit trilogy was already like comparing apples and mediocre oranges, but none so mediocre as Battle of the Five Armies. Don't get me wrong, I love a "battle" as much as the next guy, more maybe, I don't even mind a movie that's 95% battle, but in this? It does. Not. Work. Five Armies is a movie that never made it out of pre-viz, let alone to a polished, well-rounded, final cut. I enjoy it to some degree when running through a Middle-Earth marathon as a whole, but only when the group I'm with will let me roll my eyes and complain about it. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.