battle scenes saves this movie for getting 1 out of 10

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2003)

This must be the most overrated and overhyped movie of this year.
Too long, too boring, too sentimental and just too bad.
The battle scenes and Gollem save this movie. The acting, and especially Elijah Wood's (even Keanu Reeves' plastic acting in The Matrix trilogy is better), is so bland and incredibly sub-par this movie indeed sets a new standard for epic films: dread.
From the beginning I have told everyone who wanted to know that Frodo is portrayed as a total w***er and cry-baby and that the real hero in this series is Sam. OK, and Aragorn.
No, I was glad to have seen it, because the natural sceneries are beautiful, but in my eyes this movie doesn't even deserve a rate higher than that of the other completely overrated movie sequel called T3.
Give this one a miss and get the DVD so you can use the FFWD button!