A Glowing Review by Brigid

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2002)

This was and is one of the best done movies i have ever seen in my life. I think i particularly have to admire the EXTENSIVE character work there must have done since each actor nailed it. Really outstanding work on their parts and they truly should be proud. The sets were also absolutely incredible. it was honestly like being there. New Zealand was a perfect location. The special effects were truly out of this world. At the ford of the river Bruinen, i couldn't believe how awesomely they displayed the flood. it was spectacular.
I didn't quite appreciate the fact that Glorfindel was cut completely out of the movie and replaced with Arwen. And i REALLY miss Tom Bombadil and the barrow downs although i can understand why said changes were made. It would have easily turned this 3 hour movie into a 5 to 6 hour movie. i love Tolkien, but i think i'd really need a smoke after that. Nicotine addicts are running from the theatres the second the credits go up as is. i digress.

I think the characters really showed fantastic emotion. Outside of Moria, the emotion is so real, i was right there with them, bawling alongside everyone else in the Uptown on December 19th. Another thing though that kind of bothered me a bit was my favorite spot, Lorien, seemed a bit too, what's a good word,i guess, wispy. Lothlorien is the Golden wood of Galadriel and while it was absolutely as beautiful as it should have been, it just seemed to lack substance. Ah well. its a guy thing as my mom says. Look at the fight scenes. They're out of this world. When Legolas takes his arrow and stabs one orc with it an then uses the same arrow in his bow to kill another in the fight with the Uruk hai, wow. This is an incredible movie and it bites that we've gotta wait so long for the next one. Patience is a virtue.