release will rake in the $1 billion worldwide that each of its predecessors’ did. The film’s multitude of teenage boy satisfactions, not to mention its position as Jackson’s presumed swan song to this defining stage of his career, leaves no doubt that the Warner Bros. Much as The Return of the King wrapped up the Lord of the Rings saga on an action-dominated high note, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies lives up to its mayhem potential by making maximum use of modern technology to create an abundant smorgasbord of wildly varied and sometimes mordantly amusing combat this is an out-and-out war film, with gobs of trimmings. Tolkien with a film that may be the most purely entertaining of any in the collection (tellingly, it is also, by far, the shortest of the sextet).
After six films,13 years and 1031 minutes of accumulated running time (far more if you count the extended versions), Peter Jackson has concluded his massively remunerative genuflection at the altar of J.R.R.
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