A way off the target!

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2002)

Firstly, although critics try to examine this movie, as a rule, apart from the book, I have different intentions. I read the book a few time, so I can't be "objective"(negligent, maybe?) in this manner. Peter Jackson had missed completely the atmosphere of the book. Where you have a fight for life with no chances against the Evil, and just a sparkle of hope all to the end of the "textual" version, in the movie there is a Rambo Strider,and others who handle every situation using sword 'n' magic technique alla Conan, so the question arises why are they running away at all? Where you have most imaginative creatures of the entire fantasy and mythic world there are animated Godzilla-like supermonsters which simply aren't a match for the original ones.