In true Middle-Earth fashion, this got ruined.

Rating: 3/10 (2 April 2015)

"thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
I think Peter Jackson was extremely lucky he could start in the perfect direction with Lord of the Rings, as he was blessed by the fact that the animation in '78 already did just that. Result was about perfect.
I never in my dreams imaged the same person could so royally ruin it all. The mystic gloominess of middle earth is gone, instead we get watered up Warhammer, and Mortal Kombat between Ringwraights and Saruman, and boring stereotype characters. All badly written on top of it all.
But to not blame it all on PJ, what the hell did Del Toro did on this?
On the bright side, the actors did all they could, they were great, but this only makes the shadows deeper, and the whole thing even sadder. It's the waste of our lifetime i fear. I am at a point were i hope the Silmarillion will come to the screen in a better time when it can get the proper honor like what the LOTR series got.