Brilliantly done opening, but collapses spectacularly

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2002)

The first ten minutes of The Lord Of The Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings are among the best and most exciting I've seen. Cate Blanchett's narration is energetic and layered. The sweeping scope, the fast paced clips are really well done. That stuff gets an A. The rest of the movie is so spectacularly dull, save a couple of moments, the movie just collapses.

Peter Jackson's direction of the Hobbit scenes is so broad, all of them come off as one-dimensional idiots. I could not stand Pippin and Merry, I was hoping they were killed off.
There is one scene before the characters go into a cave and fight a couple of trolls, they fight a water monster. I have no Idea why the writers would put two fights back to back. OK,its dangerous, we get it.

Another thing is there are minutes long scenes where the characters just walk, taking up screen time.
There are some good performances. Liv Tyler,her first scenes with Frodo, Cate Blanchett, but that's it really.
I had to give the movie a 1. It just totally collapses.