highly overrated

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2001)

this is due time for IMDB to come up with a new rating system. Lord of the Rings, as the most hyped movie in recent history, is, IMHO, just an ok fantasy film. Truly the special effects were great, but nothing creative or original. I am not a fan of Tolkien's book and I suppose the movie was not made solely for avid fans, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't identify myself with any of the characters. There were too many fight scenes, and I easily got bored after two or three of them, whatever in between the fights was just faked and boring. Come on, guys, no matter how high it ranks, please let it stand below the Shawshank Redemption, there is no way it can beat classics like this. There is not a least bit of redeeming value in the LOTR, I felt so relieved, not redeemed, when the ending credits rolled.