Update

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2002)

Well well, 9 months down the line and look at the reaction from this movie. I bothered to read a few of the poorly-written, dull comments posted about this movie and a couple of them struck me. For how stupid they are.
Naming no names but answering their silly criticisms is what I'm here for. Firstly, someone called this film for not being original. "Wizards in pointy hats". HELLO - Tolkien is the source material for this stereotype! What, like, were you thinking!? The Lord Of The Rings is completely original; many of the stories for both books and films today haven't half cribbed from it so please stop whining that LOTR isn't original. Let me tell you there'd be no Star Wars without this. Just see them for reasons why.
On the related subject, another apparently-intelligent reviewer here called this movie's SFX for being poor in comparison to Star Wars: Phantom Menace. Hello: those fx in that movie reeked. They were all far too CG. Effects in LOTR were far better for the simple reason that in Phantom Menace, you could tell they were special effects. In this movie, however, the fx looked real and believable - you weren't lead to believe what you were seeing was an effect.
That is all really. This movie rocks. Roll on December 18th!