Over Rated

Rating: 6/10 (27 March 2002)

Like Amber-14 from Sydney, Australia. I am so tempted to give this a 1/10 just to restore some balance. 2nd best movie of all time? Please!! Now I would not put the Godfather at No1 and any list is subjective, but this is a good list very eclectic, it contains virtually all Kubrick's films most of what you expect to be there and current favourites that hang around the top for a while. The star wars films appear in the right order and my own Top choice is at 25 this week `12 Angry Men'. That is what lists are about, debate discussion, who put that there etc. No LOTR is not a bad film well made great acting, but it is not complete. I have not read the books so I have to start from that premise. But not since Back to the future 2 has a film ended with such contempt for an audience, we all know that there will be sequels but end the film and explain why the other 3 walked away. The editing was poor I got dizzy with all those fats cut fight edits and boy were there a lot. Even some of the SFX were poor the crumbling steps was horrible, although a lot of the blue screen art was good. What bothers me most was the invincibility of our heroes, it was actually a pleasure to see Sean Been perish. There was no explanation as to the inconsistency that he wouldn't march on Morodor with 10,000 men but would with a wizard , Robin hood Super Sword and 5 pygmies. Not since most of Arnie's adventures have you seen a trained Army struggle to hit the target. I go along with the complaints about length and characterisation, this was a good Saturday night distraction, but for 3 hours loose a couple of battles and put in some Plot! Try and summarise your favourite movie in a sentence? Not even Start Wars can be described in less than a paragraph. Good but no cigar 5/10 Vote 1/10 lets get Shawshank back up a notch.