Spoiler Great visual effects Wonderful Sound but that's all.

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2002)

This movie is beautiful. This movie has great chest thumping sound. Other than that if you are not a huge fan of Dungeons and Dragons I would suggest you stay home.
The story is standard swashbuckling adventure. It is a bit remindful of the Wizard of Oz in plotline. The difference being that at the end of this 3 hour movie Dorothy doesn't get safely home to Kansas. We'll have to wade through another 2 parts of presumably equal length before we find out that the ring gets destroyed and the world is saved.
The book may have been ground breaking but the movie is just a boring story with a lot of special effects and wonderful scenery.
Movies with good stories will endure. Movies like this won't. Or shouldn't.

S.