Saw it last night. Decent effort but I've never been a massive fan of Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. The rescue of Gandalf by Galadriel, Saruman and Elrond is the best bit by a long way.
I'm also failing to see where the 5 armies come from. There's an Elf one. A dwarf one and the orc one but the rabble of humans from Laketown can hardly be called an army and unless you consider the fact that the orc army is split into two as two separate armies then by my count there's only 3 actual armies.
Still. I'll give it a 6/10. Would be more but Peter Jackson obviously doesn't grasp the concept of 'less is more'
just got back from seeing this..
I enjoyed it a lot. I felt that the story was well written and well acted. All of the beats where the action is concerned is well worth it and spot on. Just two gripes. the first is Gandalf should have done magic a lot but thats what the extended cut is for 🙂 .... the only other gripe i have is this should have been the same running time as the others 😄 . I would recommend this film to others.. I give this 8/10