Amazing, Amazing, Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2002)

Amazing!!!!!!!!! That is my first reaction to this movie. My second, when I had time to think about it a little, take in everything I had seen, and really analyze the context of the movie was AMAZING!!!!!!! If you don't like the story, or never cared for the story and especially hated those obsessed morons who always talked about it, then this movie is not for you. It is a 3 hour movie and it is not a Hollywood type, in your face for 2 hours, half the world blows up experience. If that is what you are looking for, and I enjoy that as much as the next man, then you had better go somewhere else. This movie is remarkable, and if you love fantasy, far away places with strange and mystical creatures and amazing adventures, then this, in fact, is the movie for you to see.If you are scared off by the running time, let me just say that as with many great movies, Braveheart and the Godfather, the time flys by. If you are avid fan of the books, as I am, then you may be scared off by the fact that Tolkiens masterpieces can never truly come to life, except in the minds eye. Well, I agree, yet this movie fits and stays to the book as well as any movie ever has. The effects are amazing, the acting tremendous, the fight scenes astounding, just flat out great. Don't be scared off, go see this movie. I will be, again.