Sorry, I didn't have time to read the book

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2003)

This movie plays like a movie designed for people who already know the story and the characters and are just curious to see if anybody else's vision of it is the same as theirs. The characters are not developed enough for us to care about them, they are just characters in an elaborate game of D&D. The movie is visually spectacular, and any individual scene may be exciting and fun, but for those of us who aren't sci-fi geeks, it plays like a game that we are watching from the outside. It's not terrible, but a movie should stand on its own, and not require us to study a trilogy beforehand for background.