Breathtaking, Heart Wrenching, Why do we have to wait a year to see the rest!!!???

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

IMHO, this is a very excelent movie... hands down! Everything from the scenery to the performances were astounding. The effects were great but what really makes the movie so good is the performances that were turned in by the eclectic group of actors. Ian McKellen portrayed the bitter-sweet attitide that was needed to make the Gandalf charcter so wonderful, something that was sorely missing from the animated features over yesteryear. Sean Bean brought a very potent humanity to Boramir that made the performance very powerful right to the heart wrenching end. I could go on for hours about the excelent cast but it has all been said all ready by hundreds of other reviewers. Let me just say that despite some very small gripes that I have about the movie, mainly the Lothlorien segment, the film above and beyond surpassed my expectations and on several occasions made me cry at the beauty of it all. I will not say that this is the greatest movie of all time because my view on it is bias, but I will say that it is a excelent movie that fits in with the likes of the original StarWars and Indiana Jones movies. The one movie to rule them all this year has arrived. See It!