superb!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2002)

I have now seen this movie three times and that says some thing else because I almost never see a movie more than once at a theatre.
First off, I can say as reading the book myself there are many things left out in this such as the highly contested removal of Tom Bombadil which I find in the long run as being a minor piece of the story. But all in all I think that was an amazing job done by Peter Jackson with fitting the entire story into that timeframe.
Secondly I must commend the amazing acting job that was done in this film, every role was played with utmost perfection. Also the musical score was fantastic.
Another amazing feature of the film was the anticipation of seing the ballrog, I just love how all you see and hear were the vibrations and the red glow in the doorways as they escaped the mines of moria. I found that utterly amazing.
Now for the flaws,
I found that there was very few things wrong with this movie, but yet still there was some. One such thing was the choppy camera work during the battle scenes. This was especially evident in the last orc battle scene. Also I found that the vision of Hobbiton wasn't what i thought it would be, I thought it should have had many more trees then it did, but that was only my view of the place and probably differs from others. I also found that the travelling between hobbiton and Rivendall was to short, but then again by adding more it would cause the movie to to be lengthaned even more so it is questionable.
In conclusion I find that this is a landmark film and by far meets up to the standards set by the novel and I am only anticipating the release of the next movie.