Way Overboard

Rating: 3/10 (22 February 2004)

Well New Zealand gets a 1.5 for this movie. Way to long, 3.5 hours without an intermission is not good. Did the director never see "Gone With the Wind" when he was a young child?
I also found somethings quite disjointed, they just didn't make sense, such as, the switching of the ring back and forth between Sam and Frodo. And why do they have some of the redundancy in the lines. When Mr Evil says "No man can do...", the King's daughter then takes off her helmet, but has to reiterate, that she's no man. Duh!! Another part that was poorly done was the ending, they get to what should be the climatic ending and then decide, well we've shot an extra 15 minutes of celluloid, so let's put that in the film also!
As for people who've asked about getting 200 horses and riders to go up or down a hill, that's already been done, it's called the Civil War (a reality show from the 1860s, not a SciFi makeup). Speaking of the battlefield, next time please get Dale Dye (Cpt, USMC, Ret) or somebody to please help. Frontal assaults with light cavalry rarely work against infantry, except in favor of the infantry and usually resulting in a lot of bloodshed. Also where was all the blood on the battlefield, with that many dead, you would have expected to see pools of blood all over!
This story was done better in the original 3 of Star Wars, but without the benefit of all the latest in computer graphics.