A real pity

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2001)

An excellent cast, with some outstanding performances by Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Hugo Weaving, and most others of the cast. Also, the setting is beautiful, with impressive landscapes and all. Even the Nazgul look convincing. But... The screenplay is just another average hollywood high-geared action flick. We go from close encounter to even closer encounter to a hundred orcs, a thousand orcs, it's just standard hollywood action. Also, a lot of things make no sense at all because of the changes Jackson made. First, Aragorn tells us how incredibly dangerous these Nazgul are, and then he defeats five of them singlehandedly. And there's much much more of that. It could have been very good. The cast is good, the effects are good, the setting is good, but the screenplay sucks beyond belief.
A real pity.
5 out of 10.