What a Fine Christmas Present

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2001)

This is by far the best film I have ever seen. I am a Tolkien fan with no qualms about this adaptation of the book. The visuals are stunning and the battles scenes are well done looks realistic not a bunch of dance moves like in Phantom Menace. The only problem I had was with Elrond. I keep waiting for him to say "Frodo, It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Frodo Baggins, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. Other than that I'm cool with it. If you like JRR Tolkien's Trilogy you may want to pick up the radio Drama by the "Mind's Eye" also they have a BBC version 12 tapes or 4 CD's. Hours of listening pleasure.