Fantastic

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2001)

I have never read any of the books and I found the movie fantastic. The special effects, story, characters, settings, and overall effect of these together make it a great movie. There are plot elements that were forgotten or misdone, for example, what happened with Gollum? I'm not sure if some questions I have will be answered in Part 2 or if they were just lost in the conversion from book to screenplay, but there are few problems.
The people I saw it with, however didn't like the movie that much. To be fair, I will list their complaints. Too long (it's about 3 hours), too repetitive (there are a lot of fighting and running scenes), um, I guess that's it. I also agree with someone that the wizard fight scene was too short. I mean, when wizards fight, you've got to make it into a long and elaborate scene.
I'm going to give this an 8 or 9. Go see it.