Good Movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2003)

While this movie is very good and certianly worth going to the theatre to see, it is far from the top 5 of the greatest movies of all time.
The movie follows the Lord of the Rings book series, which I will admit to have never reading so I cannot comment on the closeness it follows to the novels' storylines. I can, however, comment on the movie itself.
The best thing this movie has going for it is the cinimatics. The vast expanses are simply amazing to watch, but that doesn't make a movie for me. The storyline is very enjoyable, although I felt lost at times without previously reading the books. By the second hour, I was starting to look at my watch. Unlike the great three hour plus movies, this one started to drag towards the middle.
For a person that isn't enchanted by magical movies, I still found the movie to be excellent and well worth the price of admission. But one of the greatest movies of all time, it is not.