Awesome

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

I've just returned from the movies with a new definition of what perfection in cinema is. Jackson's visualization of Tolkien's works could hardly have been done better.
Granted: some things from the books are missing. But transferring the books to the silver screen was always going to be an impossibility without cutting some things out.
What remains is a moving, enthralling, mesmerizing, thrilling and wonderful journey through the lands of Middle Earth. If there was an Academy Award for casting it should go to the casting crew of The Fellowship of The Ring. Every character is totally on the spot. Especially Elijah Wood is perfectly underplayed as Frodo the Ringbearer.
I could go on praising this movie for hours - but you don't have time to read it... you should be in the Cinema ready to be amazed