Not as Faithful as I was led to believe

Rating: 5/10 (4 February 2002)

Lord of the Rings looks brilliant, and I did quite enjoy it. But I was a bit annoyed because I was led to believe that it was 'Faithful to the book', but loads of stuff has been changed or missed out (Elronds character particularly bothered me for being too opinionated, and not neutral like in the book). I would have enjoyed this more had my expectations not been so high, but being a great fan of the book, I would personally like to have seen it as six movies with a lot more detail. Go and see it, but don't expect it too be much like the book.