Finally, the best!!

Rating: 9/10 (4 January 2002)

This movie is really good, it has some of the best special effects I've ever seen in a movie and the story (although the book is much better) is great. The only problem of "The Lord of the Rings" cinematographical trilogy is that screentime is never enough to tell everything, and in this particular case it has destroyed all the beauty of the original story. It's hard to make a large film to the general audience and originally the maximum time was only two and a half hours!!! happily the movie has three and it should have even more! The movie compared with the book is scarier but not greater, some of the best parts of the book had to be cut and the movie lost a lot with that. Happily the director knows how to transmit fear and also, in some scenes shows things that don't need to be told but help to brief the movie and also connect the three movies.
Let's hope that after this great hit the people start to see that New Zealand has some of the best director's in the world, and also of the best movies.