Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2002)

Well first up, this movie deserves a 10 from me. However, I'll try to be critical without being unreasonable.. The movie captures the story of Tolkien's mind with overpowering realism. For the most part it matches exactly with my imagination, which is a real work of art if you can pull that off, and not because of my imagination :). Anyway, the cast is great, the scenery is great, the cgi is great, the monstrous the story is great, the action is amazing and the karma is positive throughout. If you like D&D, this is the sort of thing you'd want to see everyday, but you don't because it would give you an instant overdose of goodness, if there is such a thing. The one critique I want to mention, is that aside from the little errors (eastereggs?) in the movie that are allready mentioned everywhere, the movie does not give you enough time to live with the characters.. there is little room for empathy. But that is at this point the only flaw I can find for a movie that is a transition from a masterpiece by Tolkien himself. If you don't know exactly how it's gonna turn out, such a movie would be a director's suicide, yet, the fact that it is here and that is so good is proof that this director knew what he was doing, and what he wanted. He knew the public was fond of Tolkien and would be extremely critical about it... I'm going to conclude with my present sentiments, which are that waiting for the next one for a whole long year will be torture, but then again, so was Frodo's voyage.