2014 · action · adventure · fantasy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Directed by Peter Jackson2h 24m2014
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.
Our read: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
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- epic-stakes
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