IMDB NO 1. What a joke !!!

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2001)

Firstly i wanna say that i though The Fellowship of the Rigns (TFOTR) was a good movie. In fact ill go as far to say a "great" movie but the greatest or anything over 7 out of ten NO WAY My first problem with this film is its pacing and structure. The film climaxes in the wrong spot ! and then preceeds this with boring unpolished work that just detracts from the overall film. This is also the reason for its incomprehensible length. 3 hours !! why ? It just gets lost in a lot of stuff that could have been cut and maybee saved for the dvd, but to put it all in a final release like this is stupid. By this i am refering to the final battle on the hill, the scene with kate blanchet etc. My second major gripe is the overuse of Special effects. Ok the first 10 minutes blew me away totally especially those shots of the battle WOW amazing. also the scene with the big ogre thing in the caves. That was extreemly well done. Apart from this effects are used way too often and in doing this the good bits loose their impact. The best form of film suspense and creativity is subtlety and utilising the screen to stir the imagination. In this film we see a gross hollywood action style overuse of effects. Whether this is to keep it true to the book i dont know but it just ruins the effect of the good special effects and computer graphics sequences. having said all this i think someone will do what they did with starwars episode one and re-cut the film. Also: Georgie Lucas and ILM better get their arses in gear cause some of the special effects in this film blow star wars episode one off the map. But that is to be expected considering the time gap between both. I hope we get blown off the planet again with episode 2 and then taken even further with the two towers the sequal to this film