The epic stunning experience that cinema needed..

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2005)

What a delightful experience was to watch this movie!! I really liked it a lot, but it took me by surprise.Why? Because though everybody was saying it was a great movie I just didn't have faith in it, and so I didn't watch it on the cinema, but when I watched it on TV it really caught my attention and I happily stayed the 3 hours the movie lasts enjoying it.
The story is great, and it was quite a nice surprise for me, since I had never read any of the books of J.R.R. Talkien . I have to say that the atmosphere with which Peter Jackson delights us, is really worthy of gratitude. It is probably a key in the movie this aspect, not the only one, but one of them definitely.
Just when I was thinking that cinema industry needed some Adventure-epic like Star wars in the 70's Lord of the rings appeared and well it was a satisfaction to see that we can still have this great journeys. This has all the components for a classic, an immersive story, great acting, beautiful locations and atmosphere, good moral values.
I won't speak about the script adaptation because I didn't read the original novel, but that the story is great , no doubt of that. But for me the most important aspect further the story, is the atmosphere, it has the precise quantity of light, the precise quantity of dark, everything is in the right measure, nothing lacks, nothing fails. It makes you go deep inside the story and you feel your are among hobbits and other creatures.
The thing of the ring is something wonderful as well, how the director tells us about the evil power of the ring, we can easily compare it with our situation in the world. We see that greed and selfishness exist on earth, as well as on Middle-Earth. It is something common to everybody. And this is wonderfully and clearly descripted all through the movie, this struggle between the inner part of humans and the materialism that can easily darken all those who are weak-minded.
About the special effects, I see this is a case as Matrix, the effects are great, but you have to focus in the story that is far greater and far more important than that, that's in second or third place, it isn't even as important as atmosphere, and this is something that filmmakers don't understand lately because they try to focus in the outer part, not in the message. Great movies are those which have a strong story, strong moral values, and they can tell that with or without great effects
And last but not less important, the cast, I won't say anything, the names speak for themselves, it was an easy job for Jackson to have Elijah Wood, Liv Tyler, Ian McKellan, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortenssen, Cate Blanchet, Hugo Weaving, all in the same movie. They did here what they always do: A great job.
So resuming, I f you live in Mars and haven't watched this movie yet, I say to you: go and watch it, you won't regret it, even though if you are not a fan of Adventure-epic movies, this one is gonna change your mind..believe me..