Truly awestruck

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2006)

I was expecting a great, entertaining film. I got an outstanding, touching, moving, entertaining, action-adventure, with great battle scenes, touching sibling moments, moving characters, a profoundly moral tale. Truly, one of the best all-around films I have ever seen. It follows the book well, but not slavishly. Some of the changes are outstanding improvements for modern audiences. The opening scenes showing the background for what's going on at the time are perfect for a quick intro of the history, without dragging into a lengthy explanation of what's going on.
If you see no other movie this year, see this movie.