It couldn't have been done much better.

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2001)

Not much needs to be said. I love and have loved the books for years. Obviously changes had to be made in order to adapt the story well for a film but the changes are reasonable for the most part. Considering how much "premise building" had to be done in this first film and how much history had to be told I thought that the pacing was very well done. The cast is excellent and I hope to see some of the characters who didn't get as much time for development really blossom in part 2.
This is the correct way to adapt a long well loved book. "Harry Potter" producers take note. Jackson made 3 hours fly by. Columbus made 2.5 seem like a week.