The LoTR splatter-action movie

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2002)

Love the book, hate the movie. Why ?
1. The atmosphere. In the book, black riders, the Nazguls, are mostly a distant yet frightening threat, not something to throw on your face at every turn. The athmosphere should have been more waiting, something like Hitchcock movies...
2. The plot. Somebody should give the director a copy of LoTR. And the damn director should read it. Instead of showing us the building of the Isengard and the creation of Uruk-Hai he might have used that time to actually follow the plot of the book.
3. The story ! This is supposed to be an epic tale, not some childs play where one man can beat Nazguls with a torch or two man can kill an army of Uruk-Hai. Sure, they were great fighters but still. Sure, in the book they did kill 40 orcs each in the battle of the Helm, but they had nice little walls to do it from. And how come the last orc is always the hardest to kill ? Killing 39 takes less than a minute but the last one takes 5 minutes alone...
Yep. A pity they didn't get that other guy to direct this film.