Very bad movie

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2014)

This movie is worst of Tolkein movie adaptations. This somewhat reminds me on third class western movies, where movie directors were faced with a task of eliminating thousands of native-Americans against few cowboys or USA solders. The result of that task was that thousands of mounted natives were rushing toward few barricaded gunmen, and dying in hundreds (or circling around) until they are dead. The high point of plot is when one USA gunman was wounded or killed. Here, it is the same. Director of the movie was faced with a task of eliminating orcs. However, it was even worse in this movie, because orcs are tallest, roughest, thickest armor, best organization, heavyweight fighters. Director handled it perfectly. Armor is useless, because every strike against the orc solider, no matter where, with what, or force of it, kills it. Moreover, every highpoint in all Tolkein series is handled by eagles. Really, really, terrible execution of the scenario. And there is Orlando Bloom, who is always giving dramatic statements like "bread only for war", and in the next moment, all the dread of bat horde is nullified by eagles. All high-points of the movie are handled terribly and all events from the book were displayed very poorly, with no imagination, on level of old western Indian-cowboy third-grade movies.