Monumental masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2013)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's beautiful re-imagining of Middle- Earth created by J.R.R Tolkien's best selling novels comes a story of friendship, trust, hope and tragedy. A small, shy Hobbit Frodo Baggins gets more than he bargained for when he has to protect a magical ring from evil hands and save Middle-Earth from eternal darkness. I could go into a lot more detail but I don't want to spoil the superb story-line. Just know it's of memorable quality and definitely keeps you engaged until the end.
Story: 10/10
I'll touch on the wonderful visuals created by Peter Jackson, from The Shire all the way to the Mines of Moria and Amon Hen these all look beautiful and unique, Peter really wanted to create something memorable, unforgettable and spectacular here. The characters all look unique and easy to tell apart. Elves look like Elves, Dwarfs like Dwarfs and Orcs like, well, Orcs. The costume design is great, the CGI effects and locations are stunning, even to today's standards. With the Blu-Ray edition of these movies you are getting a real treat visually.
Visuals: 10/10
The next thing to explain about, is the sound design. Howard Shore gives his musical excellence here to provide a truly breath-taking soundtrack. When the audience is meant to feel happy, the music is heart warming and cheerful, when you are meant to cry the music deepens down and hits your heart strings emotionally. The music does a perfect job of immersing you in this fantasy world and really keeps you there until the experience is over. The dialogue is key to success also, the actors all provide key and believable dialogue here, the sound design is also as fantastic as the visuals.
Audio: 10/10
The acting is key here, you wouldn't a bad actor in any main role of such a high expected movie. Elijah Wood provides his role as young Frodo Baggins and plays him extremely well here, accompanied by Sean Astin as Sam-Wise Gamgee. The stand performance in this movie has to be Ian Mckellen as Gandalf the Grey, his timing with his lines is perfect, his facial expressions are spot on and his commitment to the role is also worth mentioning, all the actors seemed to have fun in their roles and all seemed pleased with their deliverance of performance. Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett also provide roles as chief characters in this masterpiece as all the acting is of top standard.
Acting: 10/10
The overall verdict of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is ...
Perfect visuals, a masterpiece of a soundtrack and superb acting. Overall I put this as one of my favourite movies of all time and this is definitely worth the highest mark.
Movie: 10/10