The special effects were excellent but it was too violent

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2002)

The movie was very good but I only rated it as a 7 because of the violence. I realize that the whole idea of the movie is good versus evil and good triumphs over evil, but the kind of violence it portrays is the kind that I believe causes young people to become insensitive to the feelings of others and to the idea of death and suffering as being the ultimate bad ending. I will not take my 10 year old son to see it because of the violence. It is the kind where the villain laughs while he visits his evil on innocent people. Movies like Jurassic Park where the violence is another species attacking man is different. It is kind of the survival on mankind, man against nature. But violence by man against man is a whole different kind and the kind that I think is bad for young minds.
I would like to see more movies where man is seen as good. Where the conflict is directed in a more positive way; not just kill or be killed. Not just retaliate against violence with more violence.