Visually Stunning but...

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2001)

While I agree that the scenery and computer graphics were A1, I'm afraid there are serious problems with the movie. 1) NO depth of character--all of them seemed to be an amorphous "other" race ('cept for the hobbits) 2) mawkish sentimentality 3) ALL that posing and speechifying at the end...ho hum 4) monsters--Wes Craven meets Tolkein (they all looked the same to me) 5) another shot of the ring--yes, I missed its importance and needed reminding every 15 minutes what the film was about 6) OH, and could you include one more battle scene--the first ones were fantastic, the others just jarred 7) i love long films but this one could do with a decent edit...ie the grasping of the hands at the end...
The film lacked subtlety. 7/10...