Beautiful but empty (a little like Brad Pitt)

Rating: 4/10 (28 November 2008)

This movie is beautiful. The sets, the language, the costume...all that is a 10 out of 10. Unfortunately, the dialogue and story are painfully slow and far too self conscious. It's like the writer knew the film was going to be a classic and so made the dialogue as artsy as she/he possibly could. The result is that none of the characters have any humanity, they all seem very conscious of the fact that they are in a movie, playing a part. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn is quite good, but he doesn't have enough screen time to save this picture.
This movie is just that--a moving picture (the story itself seems irrelevant)
I would recommend seeing this movie while wrapping presents or making dinner, and accepting it as pretty scenery. Otherwise...there's not much here.