Cinema was invented for this INTENSE kind of experience!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

Breathtaking!
Pete Jackson did it! This movie is so extraordinary that it is hard to describe with words alone. It is thrilling, frightening, spine-chilling and exciting from the first moment on.
This was the most intense movie experience since I went to see "Return of the Jedi" in 1983, then being a 11-year old boy. "The fellowship" simply blew me away, drove me to the edge of my seat more than once. My girl-friend was totally exhausted, saying that she felt like she herself would have walked with the fellowship over the mountains and through the mines - and the last half hour, she only wanted to say "stop, I cannot walk any further, I'm totally worn out!!!". For me, knowing the book, the film still was physically strenuous, but I just could not stop adoring the wonderful pictures and the sensational cinematography.
Everybody will have his favorite moments in this movie. Mine were the escape from the black riders in the first part and Boromirs fate in the second. No spoilers here, but Sean Bean was fantastic! And I had to calm down my girl-friend during the Troll sequences at Moria - and many more times during the spectacular end...
I am very glad that the movie, unlike many others, more than lived up to the hype.
Those hours were among the most exciting movie hours I ever had, and I can't wait to see the next two parts. Hard to wait til Christmas 2002!!!