'Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies' Visually Brilliant, But Fails To Excite

It is Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the Hobbit, who despite his strong negotiating power, finds it difficult to drive sense into Throin. He admonishes him with, "Is the treasure more precious that your honour?" before switching sides. But by then, it is too late.

The five armies -- humans, elves, dwarfs, orcs, and eagles -- are fighting over the treasure in the mountain and the outcome is obvious.

The screenplay, written by four writers, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkein, seems forced and obligatory with few faintly stunning strains of exciting action and humour that are sporadically strewn in. Overall, it is devoid of any visual gore and emotional connect.

The issue here is that emphasis is given to action scenes and there is no scope for character arcs to develop. Also, some scenes are so rushed and taken for granted that if you have not seen the earlier two "Hobbit" films, you'd be lost.

Visually, the film is stunning with visual effects and computer generated images, but again it shares the same palette of all its previous editions. The only exception here being, set in winter; the action on frozen ice adds drama and freshness to the otherwise staid output.

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