3-hour epic turns out to be a dud

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2001)

Boring is the `key' word to use in this film. God, was it ever boring, especially near the end. The thing I wished the director did was to edit lots of the unnecessary emotional parts of the film (i.e. death of Boromir) so it could have been shorten to 2.25-2.5 hours. So, at least my short attention span would have been kept intact. I have not read the book, so I cannot comment on the book to movie transfer. However I do agree with the comments made by Tolkien's son about the movie, when he said, `his father if alive would NOT have been impressed'. A little advice, if you like me, and have no liking for fantasy type movies (by that I mean, movies that have elves, dwarfs, humans) avoid this movie at ALL costs. I gave this movie a 2 (an extra 1 just cause the special effects were kinda cool!)