Excellent but not No2 of all-time(!!!)

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2002)

This is an excellent adventure but I think imdb has been... hijacked by fans of Tolkien in this case. At the moment I'm writing this the film is rated as the No2 movie of all times in imdb. I am a science-fiction fan, I recently bought the book, I even played the board game (and liked it) and this was admittedly a movie with very good casting, excellent photography and scenery and a script that breezes through the 3 hours it lasts. Yet, I think that it lacks the depth or... inner magnitude that I would need to see in a movie to rate as a 10/10. For me an 8/10 or max. 9/10 is more than fair enough. As a sidenote, I cannot understand how the Lord of the Rings trilogy has been categorized into "SCIENCE-Fiction". There are 2 words in there you know and in my view this is simply "FICTION". Excellent but still plain "fiction".