Visually stunning, and that's it

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2014)

Meh. The Lord of the Rings trilogy should have prepared me for this: stunning visual effects but not much else.
Long rambling linear story, filled with nick-of-time savings from death by randomly introduced forces. Plus, goes on forever, and you have to get through two more of these before you get a conclusion (screw that!). Yep, pretty much Lord of the Rings all over again.
At 9 hours or so in total, this series of movies will go down in history as the first time ever a book was quicker to read than the adapted movie was to watch...
However, kids will love it (though the movie's length may hinder that), as will nerds.