That's it?!

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2002)

I guess you've got to be Tolkien fan to appreciate this movie. While the SFX were really good, especially the battle with the Orcs in the mines, I found this story hard to like. It literally "dead ends" with no clear resolution to this part of the story, although there are two more movies coming along after it. (At least when "The Empire Strikes Back" ended there was some sort of ending.)
Oh well. I'll probably see the other two just for the sake of seeing a completed story. But is this movie by itself a huge hit? In a word: Nope.