The most overhyped film of the decade.

Rating: 4/10 (28 February 2002)

I read and enjoyed all four books twice. While this movie is faithful to the book, it still makes a bad movie. Reading about the battles is fine seeing them is pure boredom. There was no originality in them at all. The orcs could best be defined as boring in look.
Almost three hours had me close to sleeping at the end.

In general, I was totally disappointed. Giving this a 10 as most people did is to insult some of the truly great movies which have been produced. If this is a ten, We need a rating system that goes up to 50 to judge some of the truly, great movies.