Mortal

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2003)

I enjoyed this film, it was entertaining enough, but it was not a GREAT film. i know everybody is commenting about how it is one of the greatest things the cinematic art has yet produced blah de blah but I have to disagree.
For one thing it is very cold and clinical. It has obviously been made to cash in on the Tolkein phenomenon, it is really far too slickly directed, obviously trying to appeal to contemporary sensibilities (Aragorn's romantic attatchments - oh puhleez!) and it relys far too heavily on special effects. I know they are needed in something of this scale but it is inhuman and not art
I know every one is drooling over it now, and it is an entertaining film but it does NOT deserve a place on any lists of GREAT films, and I suspect in a few years it will be all but forgotten, kept alive by Tolkein enthusiasts only.