Oh look, another monster to fight... yawn...

Rating: 3/10 (22 September 2002)

Worth watching for it's excellent cinematic scenes and if you're a hard-core D&D fan but wow is this a dull story. The characters just go from one monster fight scene to another. No suspense. No plot. No ending... oh - and far too long. Perhaps it portrays the book acurately - I've only read 'The hobbit' - and based on the movie I'm not about to waste my time reading the book either. The hobbit was long and slow but had some charm in it's style and I'm told the 3 LOTR books are similar - but I can't say the same charm translates or works for this movie.