A grand epic!

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2002)

This is a film to bring back a sense of wondors to movies. This is escapism on the grandest scale. All but the most unimaginative viewers will feel that they are in Middle Earth and part of a great struggle with unspeakable evil. I read the books when I was 14 and loved them then. The movie captures that same breadth and depth of imagination. This movie is intense though and parents should not consider bringing young children. Likewise it is long and its intensity will wear on the faint of heart. In fact, my only real criticism of this movie is the lack of an intermission.