A shame...

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2002)

I'm from Mexico, sorry about my english.
I've been thinking a lot in "The lord of the rings" and still don't understand why it is so praised. I'm a big fan of movies, my all time favorite is "The godfather", fairly in the #1 of IMDB top 250, but LOTR in second? What's the matter? I'm wondering if the people who gave the movie a 10 have ever seen "Casablanca", "The shawshank redemtion", or even "The Godfather, part II". This movie has been the big dissaponting of the year, it is so, that I can only compare it to "The Majestic".
Many people say that it has great special effects. If so, which scene did I missed? Because I didn't saw anything new or spectacular, in fact, quite the oppossite. The hobbits changed size every five minutes, the monsters looked like Jurassic Park dinosaurs, just a little better.
About the acting, it was clearly below average. To be the second best movie of all times (or maybe the best, according to many reviewers of imbd), the acting is pure trash, I can't immagine why sir Ian Mckellen got an Oscar nomination.
But the worst thing of the so called "movie", is the script. Poor character development and dialogue. We've just met Saruman and he has just turned evil? We didn't even had time to memorize his name! An introductory voice over that just drags on forever? Uh-oh. The movie just has scenes that are not justified enough, call it "senseless-love-scene". And my favorite: NO ENDING! Wow! They've just topped everything else. At least, every movie in the top 250 that has a sequel, it also has an ending: Star Wars, The godfather, Silence of the lambs, etc.
No it didn't worked for me. Just too simple and boring, not even one inch of depth... For me, the best movie of the year was Amelie, hear of it? Just check for other user comments. It's a shame it didn't won best foreing language film oscar. But as always: Life is not fair...