An Epic of the Middle Earth

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2005)

It was a big talk back in 2001 when it was told that J.R.R Tolkien's masterpiece, Lord of the Rings trilogy will be made into a live action movie. Most people considered this to be impossible except one ambitious filmmaker named Peter Jackson. I was amazed at the spectacle in the theater when I went to the first screening of this film and was awed until the end of it. Okay it was long but I wasn't bored a bit by the grand locales, the action and the characters of the story. It was after watching this movie that I went to a local bookstore and bought J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy on hardcover to read for the first time. I was amazed at director Peter Jackson's ability to capture Tolkiens exact image of the Middle Earth. It was standing there on the silver screen with its mountains, statues, monsters and different species. Although I have seen the other two movies as well, I found this one to be the best among them. It Should have taken more Oscars than it originally took. This was Peter Jacksons entrance into the middle earth and the beginning of an epic journey made possible by the extremely realistic visual effects and New Zealands impressive landscape.