NOT worth the fuzz!

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2002)

*spoilers -> read the book*
I had great scepticism about this flick, because I saw the first trailers in March and that's seldom a good sign. I went to the movie with my brother, he's read the books and I haven't. Maybe that's why our opinions differ. I don't know how accurately the movie is based upon the books but I had expected more. If the ring is so powerful, why is it not emphasized more in the movie. It's seems to be just a ring which makes you invisible and your vision gets blurred. I had expected more monologue/dialogue about the ring, some more history and stuff. Instead I got a million fights and a lot of shots from some travel program on TV. New Zealand is beautiful! But I don't go to movies to watch people walk&run in forests, mountains, meadows and rafting in slow streams! The ending was an utter disappointment, not rewarding enough after 3 hrs of painstaking concentration on a plot that's so full of holes you might think that it's not even there! 5/10