Wonderful

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

This has to be one of the best adaptations ever. I worried about seeing it before I could read it one more time to firm up my own vision of Middle Earth but I needn't have worried. Peter Jackson's realisation of ME stands on its own two beautifully hairy feet - not quite what I saw but truly wonderful all the same. I was also concerned about the casting of Americans but again this simply is not a problem. How MIB's Hugo Weaving could have made a credible Elrond baffled me until I saw it and I have never seen Liv Tyler underplay a role to such effect as she does here. To say that I am looking forward to 2002 and part 2 is just a piece of good old Brit understatement! My first 10 and I hope the first of at least three.