Delivers on every count!!!

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2002)

I went to see Fellowship of the Ring expecting not a great adaption of the book, but a great movie. I got it. This films success was sealed when Peter Jackson went for High Drama rather then post-modern hipness and nudge, nudge, winkm wink knowingness.
All the casting was fantastic. You really knew every characters motivations and relationships to all the other characters. The casting of Christopher Lee and Sean Bean was particularly good.
Cinematography and camerawork were perfectly suited to the epic nature of the story. Finally the pace of the film meant that when the big events came they felt like big events. Unlike so many modern films, when the finale comes in this film it feels like the finale rather then just another super edited sequence.
All in all Its not the book. But its a terrific film adaption of the book.

Go see it, so much better then the movies we are used too today.