Review time!

WARNING RISK OF SPOILERS HERE AND THERE!

The hobbit: wat of 5 armies (or whatever it was called I tend to forget long names to films lol)

Well Peter Jackson did manage to finish off the series in style and no mistake, from the great 3d to the action and pacing to the Master of Laketowns' very deserved and funny as hell death!  Not all of the characters survive but the important deaths are handled well and ofc Legolas was as epic as every lol.

There was a few issues with the time line.  This is told for example as Bilbo remembering/writing his memoirs of the trip for Frodo as a way of marking him leaving now he is 111.  Now there is at the end of the film one person is told to go and find a Ranger called Strider, son of Arathorn.  Obviously this is the same strider as in the Lord of the rings. but this supposeldy happend what 60 years or something like that between the stories? making Bilbo around 40. If he then goes on to live for 60 years before we ever see Aragorn, who when we see him first in the Lord of the rings is in his mid 30's in appearance then...SOMEONE IS SENT TO FIND HIM BEFORE HE COULD BE BORN!

I get that they wanted to link the 2 trilogies together but seriously, this was clumsy to say the least lol.
But apart from that its pretty epic. I would give it a solid 9/10

The Expendables 3 (DVD)

Ok so the troubling 3rd installment of a franchise can be tricky.
The film opens as ever with the current team rescuing one guy from a prison train.  Why? Cos' the guys are a man down, want a medic on the team (hang on seriously, professional mercs have been running around now with no medic????)

DOC is well played by Wesley Snipes who despite his age is looking in the best shape of his life.  They then go after a target on the pay once more of the CIA job goes wrong one expendable gets very badly hurt and they bail out.  Feeling guilty Barney then FIRES the guys that have worked with him for years, so he doe not get them killed and instead hires a bunch of wild cards that pretty much no one else would hire to go after the same target once more, the target (brilliantly played by Mel Gibson who lets face it can out crazy fker anyone these days)

Ofc the job goes ok but they male the stupid mistake on not checking their target ( a former Expendable) who the is tracked and released by more of his men and the young guns are captured.  Barney is given 48 hours to come and get them.  Hia new CIA contact helps him find them and then Barney hires the one remaining guy from the wild card list (Antonio Banderas being a crazy merc)  His old team come back to help him and they proceed as ever to kick ass and take names in the most over the top action scene I have scene in an action movie in awhile.  EVERYTHING EXPLODES in such a way I began to think Micheal Bay had gotten involved!

All of a sudden the bickering young guns can work as a team with eve1 else and roll credits lol.

Its loud, dumb, full of gunfire and jokes and does feel like it is, another homage to the 80's action movies. its good, not great but it was a fun ride.  if they make a 4th one though they will not be able to get away with that again, the series needs a shot in the arm now.  7/10