Not much here for the non-Tolkien reader

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2002)

Visually very impressive, and well-acted. Liv Tyler is beautiful and I wish she was on-screen longer. But, as someone who has not read the book, I found the plot rather shallow and the characters too numerous and undeveloped. It felt like, even over three hours, the movie rushed along to get in everything that was described in the book. I will go see the next two movies, but I was not as enthralled with this movie as I had hoped.