178 of one thing, 30% of another.

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2002)

The Lord Of The Rings tells us 1- The Power Corrupts; 2- Even the simplest creature can save the world. All right, interesting premise. I took one minute writing it, the reader, took five seconds to read it, Peter Jackson took three hours to film it, that's the weakness and the strength of the movie. Truth must be said, The Lord of the Rings is 50% of boring and sometimes confusing dialogue, 20% of Discovery Channel landscapes and 30% of the most fantastic and breathtaking battle sequences ever seen, and are these same sequences, that drove the movie to its instant success. Visually the movie is stunning, production design, SFX, cinematography but facing it, length was a little stretched here and poisonous, also, the additional must have been taken out. Peter Jackson, didn't want to listen to it, once more three ours is the movie's biggest mistake, because there are movie's that are comprehensible to be three hours long, but not this one, alongside the ending. We haven't seen such an opened and hollow ending like this one since the Empire Strikes back, we all know there's going to be two sequels but shouldn't it be appropriate to put a `To Be Continued' on the middle of the screen, above the characters' head? The Lord Of The Rings is, anyway a good popcorn adventure, maybe, commercially the movie of the year, after Harry Potter, of course. Still 7 out of 10