bad execution

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2003)

plus: they do try to be faithful to the story. Sometimes they fail though (e.g. at least for me, the conversation between Gandalf and Saruman atop the tower would have definitely created a wrong impression
about the latter's intentions, had I not known it from the book).
Yet, the movie is all too jumpy and hard to follow, it just looks like they've taken a bunch of independent shots just for the sake of showing this or that particular episode, and then just pasted them together. I guess it was a noble attempt to fit as much of the original story into the movie as possible, but it, unfortunately, failed. In this case, the whole is much less than the sum of its parts. 4/10.