Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2002)

Beautiful movie with great effects, though it's sometimes a little unrealistic because they kill loads of monsters with their swords, bows and axes. Elves are according to the most sources highly magical orientated. I think that if Legolas would throw a fireball would have been better, but ofcourse it's according to a book. The elf-race is made beautiful just like the orc race. There are also humoristic pieces in the movie and I like that too. Not everybody survives and that abbandons the happy-ending stuff. Besides the open-ending is very good, because it makes this movie special. The mage fight between Gandalf and Saruman was funny to see, though it probably wasn't that hard to make, but what do I care about that? The plot is made very good and I really want that second part fast, alas is comes at christmas, so that takes quite a while.