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I just finished watching it. Fair review, fair assessment. Although, it would have been worth mentioning Thorin as well. I don't remember him going crazy in the book... No, he was certainly a greedy character, but in the film, they exaggerated that aspect a bit too much. And overall, the film is full of pomp and circumstance. What I definitely remember from the book: in the first part of the battle (before the reinforcements arrived from Ravenhill), the allies won relatively quickly and with minimal casualties. Their problems started when the reinforcements arrived for the orcs. Jackson decided to make sure that every moment of the film contained maximum tension. I think that was a mistake... But never mind. Overall, it's still a good, beautiful film.

I watched it in IMAX HD and was disappointed. The dragon was defeated in the first 5 minutes, and in a rather silly way. First, he burned the city, and then suddenly he started talking to the guy who was throwing toothpicks at him... If they wanted to, they could have easily included all of that in the second part.
The battle, which was supposed to be epic and spectacular, turned out to be ridiculous. For example, the king wanted to sacrifice half of his elven army for some stones, or the fact that the orcs joined the battle without letting the elves and dwarves finish fighting each other. The powerful and intimidating trolls died like flies, the orcs just stood there and took the hits, there was no intrigue. And again, the eagles, they couldn't do without them. Long conversations instead of just killing the enemy... and so on. If they were going to make it so pompous and turn the fairy tale into something for adults, they should have followed that path to the end, but instead, it turned out to be something only children would enjoy. They hardly made any connections to The Lord of the Rings, and the ending was pointless. Sauron also made a brief appearance and then disappeared... Every moment of the main characters' rescue is easily predictable. The worst part of the series, at best 5 out of 10 (for the beautiful scenery, music, and the death of at least one of the main characters)