nice visuals but little content

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2002)

#include spoilers Well the movie has great special effects, but thats about it...
How about some character development or intelligent plot? I couldnt care if any of the characters lived or died. Gandalf was ... well, a wizard that fell of some cliff. What about the guy that ended up dead with three arrows in his body. What was he like? Hell, what was his name? Frankly i couldnt care less. Anyone that disagrees should stop reading right now and imagine what the guy was like... see?
The plot: Get some ring from point A to B. Encounter some monster(s), fight, show ring, put on ring and disappear and repeat this until the end of the movie. Basically fighting CGI monsters thats all the film is about. As one user puts it: i was about to fall asleep when the next monster jumped out of the bushes :)
This is just another hollywoodmovie for the big masses (well someone's got to pay the CGI-bill...) probably no better or worse than titanic, pearl harbor, the mummy returns, phantom menace,... Aint no taxi driver, godfather, deer hunter, papillon,... nosirrybob... . Then why does this film rank number 2? well i must admit there are a lot of raving comments on the site so i could be true... But then again Britney Spears probably ranks number one too on the musicians chart ;)