The Hobbit collection is a three-part epic fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name. The trilogy of films are ...

That may be why The Battle of Five Armies and its two predecessors don’t feel as fully realized as the previous trilogy. Splitting The Hobbit into two movies was an understandable decision.

A decade later, it was quite a different story for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the finale of Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. That film only received a ...