Don't waste (a considerable amount) of your time...

Rating: 4/10 (15 November 2002)

possible spoilers--but I don't think much could spoil this stinker.
I was actually sucked in by the hype and paid good money to see this. How a supposedly elite audience such as the IMDB member base could rank this film (at the time of my comment) as the #6 best movie of all time is more a comment on the IMDB member base--at least those who vote--than it is the film. This first installment is the last one I'll see, thank you, and I'll admit to being charmed by it up until we left the Shire.
After that, it was one special effects horror after another trying to finish off Frodo and his friend. Don't get me wrong. I love movies and will do anything to suspend my disbelief to be entertained and taken to another mystical place--but special effects just don't make a movie--(See The Perfect Storm, for example)--and they had everything but the tiger from "Gladiator" in this movie. Maybe the tiger would have helped.

Early into the second hour, I was hoping something, anything, would succeed in killing Frodo so I could leave. But no, I stayed right to the end, thinking "How could a movie with so much buzz be bad?"---but it was.

Boring. 3 out of 10, save yourselves while you can. And if you can't, well, at least you won't have me in front of you in line this Christmas (or next!) to see any more of of this foof. #6 indeed!