Good but Hyped

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2001)

First, I'd like to say that I have NOT read the novel, this is my views towards the movie ONLY.
The first half (1:30) of the movie is all about boring (interesting? not me) Hobbits life. Instead of focusing on important events with smooth transactions of others, this movie seems spending too much time on unimportant ones. I have NOT read the novel, but from what I've heard, it's sort like quest after quest, meeting interesting people, exploring new worlds, and goes on and on. I just don't see that in the movie.
Yes i do understand the director is trying to show that it's a long journey, however the National-Geographic-Explorer-type shooting of scenery needs to STOP after like 10 times. I'm annoyed after seeing it for 10 times, it's tiring. Not as much action as I'd like to see, but maybe that's true to the novel, which I haven't read. Not as true to the spirit of the internal struggle faced by the characters, I can't feel the emotion.
To conclude my words, this movie is good but it loses the fine point of balance. I wouldn't recommend people to see unless they are interested in the D&D setting. It is WAY TOO LONG, cut the first hour completely then I would feel better. I give it a 7/10 for such production but I believe I submit a 6 due to my fast itchy-trigger finger.