A beautiful world, but dull characters

Rating: 7/10 (5 August 2002)

First of all - The Lord Of The Rings is one of my favorite book, I love all the characters, the way the story goes and the wonderful detailed world that J.R.R. Tolkien has created.
Peter Jackson started off wonderfully - when I first saw the Shire scenes they amazed me with number of details and how greatly the scenery was made. However each and every character for exception of Bilbo Baggins was simply lost. The actors work (especially that of Elliah Woods) stunned me with exceptional bad playing. Aragorn is a handsome hollywood star. Gimli is a laughing stock of all LOTR fans. Gandalf is so old and wise that there is no character seen behind that. Saruman is a hollywood mad scientists who cooks up orcs in his underground chambers.
And these goes on forever - especially it's fun to see Agent Smith from Matrix as wise and kind Elrond - he plays exactly as he did in Matrix.

I went from theater quite disappointed.