Don't believe the hype

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2002)

LOTR is "okish". I gave it 4/10. There were a few good action scenes but ultimately it is over-long and actually quite boring. It doesn't do much to make an actual movie out of the book, and I know it is part 1 of a trilogy, but they could at least have engineered some form of ending rather than just stopping the movie dead.
There isn't much else to say....before you believe this is the "best movie ever made" simply have a look at the comment history of anyone who comments here saying it is. Mmmm...look at that, they've all only ever reviewed LOTR.
This is the ultimate case of "the Emperor's new clothes" as the movie really has little going for it. People who say it is good are just saying so for fear of being branded a philistine for not liking what they are told is good by the hype machine.
This is one movie you can live without seeing. Trust me.