If I could give it Zero...

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2008)

What a terrible film, all three of them. A complete and utter waste of my time. I am usually a huge fan of fantasy and sci-fi, but this was so boring I can't believe anyone would want to classify it as 'good'. The Lord of the Rings books are much better on the whole. To anyone looking for a good use of their time, read them. Don't waste 9 hours of your life watching Peter Jackson's cgi turdfest. I look forward to The Hobbit only in that Guillermo Del Toro will be directing, and I usually am a big fan of his work. Hopefully he will not follow the Jacksonesque style of stretching out everything, whiting out the screen after three hours just to inflict another 15 minutes of mind-numbing pain on his audience. Good Luck Guillermo, you'll need it to bring back the thousands of general movie-goers put off LOTR by Peter Jackson's painstakingly awful recreations.