What's So Great About This Movie? Really?

Rating: 1/10 (28 September 2002)

A dull, humorless film version of a dull, humorless book, penned by a dull, humorless author. Technically it's proficient, but many others look better. Artistically it's pedestrian at best. The laughable, unintentional campness of pretty-much everybody soon loses its novelty value, and becomes immensely irritating, particularly in view of the epic length of this film.
I've seen much worse than this, and the makers have obviously struggled valiantly with material of such limited potential (poor Peter Jackson must have known what he'd be in for if he dared deviate from The Book and make the story more interesting), but this is no more than good. It's certainly not great, by any definition of the word. Let's all just get over it and move on.