A film is not a book, that's right, but ...

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2006)

This film can be called "okay" - but it is definitely NOT worth even one single Oscar!!! I would not say, that anything at all in Tolkien's books is up to much interpretation.
The landscapes and the costumes and the actors were good, but: What Jackson, Walsh and Boyens did to the book, is ... well, it is quite impossible and somehow even lousy.
The many points, at which the story has been altered and cut, and the ways, in which this has been done, are ... sometimes cruel, and sometimes even dumb.
I mean, how is this even worth one Oscar, let alone four Oscars?! To chose the right setting, the right actors, the right costumes, and such stuff is the *absolute* *minimum*, which can be expected from anyone trying to make a film out of such a work as Tolkien's "Lord of the rings"!!
I don't think, that I am the only one, who has read the book first, and is now quite disappointed by the screenplay.