I didn't like it at all. I felt nothing. I rolled my eyes a lot. So essentially, this film fulfilled every expectation I had for it. going to copy my facebook post:

I was going to write out a nice long critique about Battle of the Five Armies and the conclusion to The Hobbit trilogy, but someone has already done it for me.

http://arstechnica.com/the-multivers...obbit-trilogy/

Cue the absurdly apt "the kids are barely developed at all and Bard comes off as a blandly heroic Diet Aragorn". I loved Bard in The Desolation of Smaug; he was the best thing about that film, aside from Bilbo's meeting with Smaug. This one, though, he just didn't cut it. Diet Aragorn is smurfing right.

Also, the film started winding down a good HOUR AND TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE FILM ENDED. THAT IS FAR TOO LONG TO DRAG OUT AN ENDING. PETER JACKSON FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE FILMS EVER, YOU HAVE GEORGE-LUCASED THE trout OUT OF THESE FILMS JUST STOP