Dull.

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2006)

This was the first Lord of the Rings movie I saw. It's awful. It's dull, tedious and boring. Worse than Star Wars movies, really, and they're pretty bad. I tried to get interested in it but it was just one gimmick after another to delay the story line: another monster, demon, dwarf, elf, wizard, etc., etc. I guess the final analyis there isn't much of a story line at all. It's sort of like "The Wizard of Oz" on steroids but with none of the charm, and it's way too long. The scenery is nice and the special effects are good, but that's all. In the end I didn't care about the characters or how the movie ended. And then, to top it all off, the movie didn't even have an ending. It just stopped with the characters still short of their mission. What a waste of movie-making!