Bring out your trolls!

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2002)

I was impressed, impressed enough to want to see it at least twice more in the theatre, impressed enough that I can't wait until next Christmas to see the next one.
Peter Jackson has finally made Tolkein interesting. Lord of the Rings is a horribly boring book that made little sense, this movie brings it all into perspective and gives the whole idea of Middle Earth a more plausible and exciting ring to it.
My only concern is for how well the quality of the CGI is going to stand up to being viewed on a television. LOTR shows every sign of having the CGI too thinly layered or not saturated enough, signs that make the CGI stand out like blood on a white sheet when viewed on a television. Other than that I was impressed.
Shooting forced perspective shots like that has proven the downfall of many previous movies, but here they've made it work like it never has before.
If you didn't like it, tough, its pretty obvious that statements like that are part of the underwhelming minority.