Pretty good until the ending

Rating: 3/10 (18 December 2004)

SPOILER - Perhaps i should say non-ending because you are expecting some answers to questions like - Will frodo destroy the ring? Will he kill Sauron or Sauron him? Instead the film just stops with the questions hanging - an obvious teaser to watch the next installment.
Show started off slowly but midway thru we get to the Mines or Moria and things really pick up. Incredible FX. The main character frodo is a silly dork but christopher lee is fantastic as the evil saruman. The gandalf character was a major irritant - a useless old geezer who's supposed to be a great wizard but is about as menacing as John Kerry. He and saruman got in a fight and saruman kicked his butt good.
One thing i really hated about this flik was the way people talked. I hate it when characters say "puh-son" instead of "person" and "ah-ftah" instead of "after".
But the big problem was the non-ending. I was all set to rate this an 8 but with the infuriating ending i've got to say 3.