A Vision that soars beyond Hollywood's Imagination (Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2004)

This was a great movie.
While the film could never achieve all the character development and plot points as the book (without exceeding seven hours), the movie has captured the major themes and moments form the book with beautiful standards.
When I went to go see this movie, I was expecting another Star Wars, good visual effects, but cheesy acting, crappy plot, and some visual effects that draw too much attention to themselves.
The acting here defies all that. The visual effects are good, and they never draw attention to themselves.
People will probably wonder why Tom Bombadil and various other moments from the beginning were left out. This was all done so as to increase the sense of urgency, which was much needed in order to translate this into film.
The movie faults (for me) by not really exploring the characters too well before the journey begins, but that is later made up for with the character development.
This is my third favorite film.