Generous voters or?

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2006)

So finally we managed to go and see this movie at the cinema. I didn't know what to expect. Some reviews I've read recently generally compared the output to Lord Of The Rings, so I had some expectations for sure. I felt quite, well, like someone had stolen my cookie after the movie ended. It was all OK till about the middle of the movie and the plot development to me was a little bit too slow perhaps but still OK. Somewhere after passing the mid part of the movie I felt that the plot developed all too fast. And all of a sudden the movie had ended. What happened? For sure there are great effects here, both visual and audio, but the plot just developed so quick in the end. It felt like the director realized after filming and completing the first 1½ hour that he had only one hour left to go and he had 2/3 of the story left to tell, so he tried to find some kind of compromising middle path and it didn't please me. It's a cosy movie and fully OK worth its playtime but hey, by judging the voting here makes one wonder if people's been extra generous with the points due to its Christmas times...