Loverly, but...

Rating: 4/10 (28 October 2005)

****Spoilers, sorta.
I really admired this movie, it is one of the best movies ever - technically. Yes the locations are spectacular. The film itself is on a scale I have never experienced in ANY movie I have ever seen. The downside is, firstly, that I just cannot buy into the whole Orks, Dwarfs, Fantasy thang, and so it kinda falls off the radar before I've even started.
Secondly, as true to the book as it may be, I just cannot be doing with that many characters 'nearly' dying. By the time the movie ends you have had so many encounters with 'nearly dead' you have no more empathy available for any other characters because you are thinking, "Yeah, you'll make it, everyone else did." and thus all tension is removed.
One for the fans of the book only - in other words, "I hated it, it's rubbish" ;o)