Epic Videogame

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2002)

Academy Award nomination? You gotta be kidding me? Wake me up from this silliness. Fellowship was one long passive video game. Overcome one level and you get to the next. OK, Ian Holm's Bilbo Baggins provided a little interesting drama before the epic game got started. And, yes, the scenery, sets, and special effects were excellent. Of course, we enjoyed the great masks and costumes. But Academy Award? Artificial Intelligence had equally spectacular visuals, and a much more emotionally compelling and intellectually challenging story. Even the Harry Potter movie was better than this. Why not nominate a superb old-fashioned drama such as Charlotte Ray? or the ingenious Amelie?