A Gunnehill Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2001)

This movie was very entertaining. I saw it on one of the first shows in south Sweden, the premiere day. The train me and my brother took to get to the town was late, so we had to run across half of the city to reach the cinema in time, because we had only a few minutes to get there before our booked tickets would get sold to others. I didn´t have enough power to run the whole way, but my brother arrived at the cinema when there only was 1 minute left. So we got our tickets, and we saw the great movie. It´s absolutely the best movie this year, and the best movie of the latest years.
It was pure entertainment. The actors played very good, especially Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Christopher Lee and Ian Holm).
The special effects is probably the best I´ve ever seen, even better than the ones in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
And the movie was filmed in wonderful natures in New Zealand.
The script was well written, and there weren´t many differences from the original book by JRR Tolkien.
Now I have to wait one year for the continuing saga, but it´s not 3 years that you have to wait for the next Star Wars film.
I´ll give it 9/10.