It all leads to big battle sequences, of which there are fun moments, but without Sauron behind the Orcs there’s not a great sense of threat, and the film is so lazy that the threat is never properly defined: it seems when Thorin and his team of twelve dwarfs are able to turn the tide because they can wipe out hundreds of Orcs by themselves. Thorin getting greedy essentially keeps the plot moving for about an hour and change until he snaps out of it, Bilbo – the lead of the series – has virtually nothing to do for much of the movie, while the motivations are kept at this level of ludicrous.
But then there’s an army of Orcs headed their way. This leads to a near fight as the townsfolk and elves are peeved at Thorin, though he’s called his cousin Dain ( Billy Connolly) to help protect the gold. With Smaug out of the picture, Thorin Oakenshield ( Richard Armitage) goes gold crazy and won’t share his riches with the townsfolk or the elves as promised and is especially itchy to get the Arkenstone, which Bilbo Baggins ( Martin Freeman) is hiding. This is a colossal “Fuck you” because it is the climax of the second movie – literally, this is how the second film should have ended were these movies anything more than a cash grab. The film opens with Smaug destroying Laketown, when Bard the Bowman ( Luke Evans) is able to fell the creature.
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