Middle Earth - Transformers Style

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2015)

I actually started out liking this trilogy. Clearly Peter Jackson doesn't care much about the books, but as long as those become lively stories with intricate characters, those few empty theatrical moments are easily forgiven.
However, if the plot is turned into something that is dragged along unlovingly and is replaced by absolutely silly fight scenes that literally drag on for hours. Then you have a 'Transformers moment', which makes you want to shout out asking why the evil guy can't just be dead now.
The visuals, true to the Lord of the Rings legacy, are still stunning, that has to be said. Beautiful animations and cutting edge movie technology surely aren't absent, but that is far from saving the movie.
I would have liked to like that movie, but as it is it is empty, trying to give LOTR fans the bare minimum of resemblance to the original trilogy, but otherwise Middle Earth has lost its charm.