Good, but not worthy of #3

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2002)

This movie was good, but I grade a movie on how much it moved and how much I want to go jump in line for another movie ticket. This movie simply put, did not make want to see it again. I even downloaded it off of Kazaa like a month ago and I have still yet to watch that version. Why? I can't really answer that question but I can guess. For one, I thought the movie had many pointless scenes that just seemed to drag out the movie. Did they really need all those shots of them just walking? A lot of editing could've been done on this movie to make it much shorter. Sure, the acting was good and the scenery was beautifully done, but the movie was boring. Even the action scenes were boring. The only part that even remotely made me want to cheer is when Legolas sticks his arrow through a monster then takes that same arrow and shoots another one. The rest of the action sequences were not very well done. As for the rest of the story, well, the plot was relatively simple. It's pretty easily scene what's going on -- your typical good guy, bad guy story. So, what makes this movie be up here with The Godfather and the Shawnshank Redemption?
This idea has been done many, many times before and they didn't even write their own story for crying out loud so I'm just not seeing it as one of the best movies of all time. JRR Tolkien made this movie a 7/10 before they even started production.
Episode II from Star Wars with its flaws in the love story and script is still a much better movie. It makes you want to get up and cheer for your heros.
The Casting, Acting, scenery and JRR Tolkien give this movie its points.
8/10 but not even one of my top 10 favorite of all time.