Beautiful but overrated

Rating: 2/10 (21 April 2002)

This film is absolutely beautiful to look at, but that's about it. Although the performances are very good, the characters are not really well developed, which is completely surprising considering the movie is so long. While watching it feels like the characters travel great distances, fight, cry, travel great distances, fight, cry, travel great distances, fight, cry over and over again. I had no interest in any of the characters (except Gandolph, who was wonderfully portrayed by Ian McCellan, and maybe a little interest in Strider). The point is that Frodo is suppossed to be the main character here and he is way too passive a protaganist to hold my interest at all. At first I thought I was a movie snob until I saw it a second time and two of the four people with whom I saw it completely felt the same.