From armies crunching together to individual characters settling their differences, closure is satisfyingly noisy. It makes great use of the source imagery from the films and is bound to get first timers excited to dive in.
Battle of the Five Armies has a very pretty main menu and army selection screen. There's barely any dialogue for the last third of the film, just steel on steel, garnished with more elfen parkour than you could shake a wizard's staff at. And then a game like The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies - Fight for Middle-earth comes out and makes my job that much harder. Yet you can't claim to feel short-changed: we're promised a battle, and battles we get. Still, compared to the interminable false endings of "The Return of the King", "Five Armies" is relatively compact. However, if that were strictly true, Bard's name would be Board - Luke Evans does his best but Aragorn he ain't. Incidentally, his name actually is Lickspittle, proving along with Grima Wormtongue that nominative determinism is alive and well in Middle-earth. The bad guys are a swirly thing in the sky, a couple of interchangeable video game sprites and a painfully unfunny lickspittle who just keeps turning up again and again long after his cowardly schtick wore off precisely one film ago.
Yet despite this range of characters, there's a strange lack of compelling villains.
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