Lord of Tedium

Rating: 5/10 (7 May 2006)

An important ring must be destroyed to save the Universe or at least the Middle Earth part of it. Frodo could just flush it down a toilet and be done with it but then the story couldn't be dragged out to ten hours over three films. Tolkien's big story is brought to the screen in a big way by Jackson. The plot is pretty ridiculous but could have been made into an enjoyable film by someone who does not take himself as seriously as Jackson. The plot unfolds in tedious detail as we meet an assortment of strange characters, human and otherwise. The monster in the cave is laughably bad, befitting a 1950s Japanese movie. All the actors try to look dignified, as if they were filming a Shakespeare tragedy, instead of this hokum.