had to write something to get Richard Head's negative review off the top

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2017)

I am of the opinion that if Peter Jackson and a quarter billion dollars couldn't satisfy a viewer, you are probably insatiable. Rather like complaining about living in the best country on the planet, during the greatest age of mankind, and doing nothing to improve it. Guess what? asking for the insurmountable and vindicating your self fulfilling prophecies went out with the millennium. The one where they had to start counting digits. This movie made contrived source material and undeveloped technology as close to modern mythology as one can. Fairy tales are not famed for character development. The nature of fine story telling is working with what you have at hand to pay for your dinner, and being asked back instead of driven out.