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Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2002)

It's 1,5 hour to long, the acting is beneath criticism, the effect makers have been lazy (one had expected much more). Have you seen Star Wars, Romancing the Stone and Excalibur you have seen it all been made much better. And it's a cheap trick ending at that point of the plot, to make sure people will pay tickets for the follow-up too. One can only hope the actors made a lot of money, because they are not getting much respect out of this.
The good thing is the photo and the composition, which for some reason doesn't make the three hours seem very long, although you are bored several times. This has been nominated for 13 Academy awards. Who cares? Well, perhaps many people do, but this is definitely not the best movie of 2001.