But to what end? Again, in 4K this stuff looks pretty stunning, but looks only go so far when you don’t care at all about the characters at the center. And then Jackson finds yet more complications to throw at the plot to stretch things out even longer, when the simplest story point is just “then Smaug breaks out.” At least The Battle of the Five Armies is just unabashedly an entire movie made up of a third act, with long stretches of no dialogue and lots of grunting. 5 MIN Video Blogs Theatrical Trailers Game Trailers Rotten Tomatoes Score TOMATOMETER 64 Critics Consensus: Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth is an earnest, visually resplendent trip, but the film's deliberate pace robs the material of some of its majesty. The Desolation of Smaug looks fantastic, especially as Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lily enter the fray, but by the time you get to Biblo’s ( Martin Freeman) confrontation with the titular dragon, you’re worn out. When the most exciting part of your movie is Gandalf hinting at the return of Sauron and not the main characters or story point, you’ve got a problem. The only positive extension is all the stuff involving Gandalf ( Ian McKellen) and Dol Goldur, and even then I can recognize it’s just partly because I’m responding to LOTR fan service.
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