Powerful Vision. But lacks any real emotion.

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 2002)

(Spoilers??)
This will be perhaps one of my harder reviews.
I was and still am apprehensive (sp?) about watching LOTR in a film media. Sure I admit... I haven't read the book, but I have been intending to. Although I've taken about a year off from reading, I still remember worlds I haven't been to. LOTR I haven't. It would be of course a new world. There are many though that I've imagined to be better than LOTR. Such as The Death Gate Cycle (hence my email address).
The problem of course is that I am a book reader & an avid movie watcher. So coming to this particular world is a trip yes, but it's not the strongest movie I've seen yet. Perhaps this will change in The Two Towers & The Return of the King. I do hope so.
I see this movie for what it is... a beginning. Which is bound to get better. I was brought up mostly on the tale of Bilbo Baggins. So Frodo is totally new to me. I kinda wished they'd done The Hobbit first. But LOTR will do for now.
Is this movie Oscar worthy? That seems the biggest outcry right now. I question this. A Beautiful Mind is a very powerful movie. One has to be open to this. Is it better than LOTR? This I cannot say. In my view no movie is better than the other. We all just happen to like certain movies.

Should Ian of won supporting actor? Can't say yet. I have to see Iris. The awards shows nowadays is kinda like Soap Opera awards. You all have a favourite soap. You wish that one particular performance would win. But usually it doesn't. Hence LOTR.
So to the outsider, do I recommend this movie. Oh yes. indeed. But Perhaps you should wait for all three to come out first.
To the LOTR fan. If your a book nut, perhaps be ready for a slight letdown. (that silly ending doesn't help) But if your an LOTR nut period.... if you haven't watched it yet... someone's gonna get kicked. ;)
My only problem I really had in this near flawless movie was the fact that it's emotionally cold. You pretty much know the wizard's not really dead.

9/10
Quality: 10/10 Entertainment: 10/10 Replayable 3/10 (that'll rise no doubt with the release of the other 2)