Pure Drudgery

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2001)

I endured this three and one-quarter hour sentence a few days ago and, toward the last one third of it, was literally counting the minutes until emancipation. Lots of sword fights and good-wizard-versus-bad wizard drama conspire to make this movie exactly what I was dreading. Extremely sophomoric moralizing and some borderline ridiculous hiding scenes where the much coveted ring is apparently trying to get rescued by the bad guys. Cheesey costumes as well. I think you would have to be either a teenaged boy or a hard core fan of fantasy novels to get into this movie. My husband (j. allott) loved it.

S. Watts