WHY do people love this film so much? It isn't that good.

Rating: 3/10 (29 October 2005)

Despite the fact that most of the cinema going world will object to this quick capsule review I fell I have to get it off my chest. I'll start with what must be said - This is not a good movie. This is not an average movie. This is in fact a crap excuse for a cinema going experience. Why do I feel like this? It could be the fact that the movie should have been an hour long - after all this is all the action that the movie has. We the cinema going audience are treated to fly by after fly by of the New Zealand countryside. If I had wanted that I would have bought a travel brochure. Let's sum up what actually happens. Evil ring must be taken to Mordor. And they don't even get that far. For a movie that is seen on almost everybody's top ten list it has precious little to recommend it. To sum up I felt I had to give at least three stars and that was due to the great soundtrack.