Don't believe the hype. This movie SUCKS

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2002)

Don't fall into the trap that all of these middle earth trolls, wizards and goblins set. Lord of the Rings is not a good movie.
(1) The direction is shoddy. I don't think Peter Jackson has made a good movie yet. The editing and pace or LOTR is TV mini-series caliber at best.
(2) A lot of the acting is sub-par. I think Elijah Wood is a fine actor and is OK with this goofy script, but the other 3 Hobbits are bad. Sean Astin, is it Rudy or Sam? As for the other two, I think I saw better acting in Monty Python's "Holy Grail". Other than Ian McKellen, the rest of the actors wallow in the poorly written "Middle-Earth"/English/Irish/New England accented dialouge.
(3) Some of the special effects were cheap. I liked the battle scenes and the the CGI monsters, but every scene with a Hobbit that had to address a size issue was laughable. The perspective trick never worked because the actor's line of sight was almost always off. If this wasn't used, the characters didn't even appear to be in the same room at the same time. Best of all, was the use of midget doubles when the camera angles were far enough away. IT WAS OBVIOUS! I've scene better doubles in bad karate movies.
So all of you guys who think this is "the greatest movie ever made" need to go back down in your parent's basement and finish your game of "Dungeons and Dragons". If you've seen this movie more than once, you need a life.