The best movie of the year.

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2001)

The First Lord of the Rings movie of Tolkien´s epic fantasy adventure trilogy met all my expectations great characters good as well as great evil, great valiant battles, sorcery, friendship, bravery and honor. This may be because I haven´t read the books yet, but saw the animated Lord of the rings, which was good but incomplete since the finance wasn´t there for a sequel. So it is a blessing that Peter Jackson has made these movies. Story: Forged by Sauron a small ring containing great evil passing from one hand to another until it lands in the hands of friendly hobbit Frodo, who with the help of wizard Gandalf and a band of other races taking the ring to the great Mount Doom to destroy it. The Fellowship of the Ring (the first part of the trilogy) is made with great landscapes and attention to detail also featuring some of the best CGI and other SFX available, the monsters and creatures look very much real, not only that, he also managed to convey the different sizes of the characters by using film tricks, notice in the first scenes of the hobbit village, how the sizes of Elijah Wood (who plays Frodo) and Ian McKellen (who plays Gandalf) who are both regular sized people differentiate so radically. The movie in some places really gets you emotionally intense and gripping. But there are clearly some flaws here and the in the character developments, not spending too much time getting to know more about them, this is clearly an excuse to making way to the story which in itself bares no flaws. The movie despite this is cast flawlessly with great acting, it has an international cast. From the UK: Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Sean Bean, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd and Christopher Lee, US: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler, Australia: Cate Blanchette and Hugo Weaving. I highly recommend you all to see it. And roll on The Two Towers film next christmas and The Return of the King the christmas after.
PS. I have now begun to read The Hobbit, which is a prelude to LOTR books and gives you the back story of Bilbo Baggins on his adventures, then I will continue with the LOTR book trilogy accordingly.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 4.5/5