Nothing new.

Rating: 1/10 (30 August 2002)

There is absolutely NOTHING new in this film. Forget all the people who are calling this ground breaking. Everything in this film has been done before and done much better.
The effects in this have gone back about 10 years. The Phantom Menace and Jurrasic Park showed just what amazing things could be done with computer animation but the effects in this movie are laughable.
The Hobbits change size from scene to scene! Didn't anyone notice? And did no one notice how fake the old wizard looked while he was running? The CGI was so bad I can't tell you.
Peter Jacksons direction is dull, stale and lacks imagination. Just think what Speilberg could have done with this story. We can all dream I suppose.
I give it 3 out of 10 and it's lucky to get that. It's dull, boring, pretentious drivel made by a bad film maker with a bad cast of so- called actors. It's no surprise that it failed misreably at the Oscars.
But the worst thing about this film is that you sit there for 3 hours and then there is no ending. What a con.
Don't by into the hype.