The Best thing to ever happen to the movie world!

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2002)

This film is amazing! I could take up three times as much space as I'm given to just gush about it. First of all, the sets are absolutely breathtaking, and the attention to detail that has gone into everything that appears on the screen is immense. Peter Jackson has done what many people think was not possible, he's brought Tolkien's world to life, it is almost exactly how it is described in the book, and the casting is a dream. The cast bring so much to their characters and look so at home in their surroundings that you find yourself getting sucked right into the screen, it's exactly what I envisioned Middle-Earth to be! My personal favourites would have to be the casting of Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn/Strider. The screenplay that has been produced is also fantastic, the inevitable cuts are there (I would have liked to have seen Tom Bambodil), and there have been scenes added, but it carries you along for three hours so completely enraptured that it feels as though you've been watching it for no longer than half an hour! This is by far the best movie I have ever seen, and Peter Jackson has done J.R.R Tolkien proud. It's a shame the author himself will never get to see this masterpiece, how someone took his vision of Middle-Earth and transferred it perfectly to the screen. A Movie Masterpiece that will go down in history as one of the best films ever made. Fantastic!