Tolkien is in capable hands.

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2007)

I had never really heard of the name Peter Jackson before these movies came out. I had heard of some of his previous works like "The Frighteners" and "Heavenly Creatures" just because I was working at a Blockbuster Video for a while. I had never watched those movies, though.
I was astounded by Jackson's abilities as a story teller. He had some extraordinary source material in the Tolkien books, but I doubt many other directors would have been so careful in the storytelling. It takes a true fan of Tolkien to make movies of this caliber from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy books. I was dismayed that some of the studios that he initially approached with this project wanted to tell the story in one movies. That would have been a horrible piece of work.
The Fellowship of the Ring is a great movie. It is three hours long, but to get all the important points out of the first book it is necessary. The amount of work by the technical crew that went into creating Middle Earth paid off big time. It is almost as if you were taken back to that place and time to watch what actually happened.
The actors, although some were not known for Academy Award winning performances, should have deserved at least nominations for their work.
The next two movies would only increase my love of the trilogy.