Down hill

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2004)

After the glory of the first film, and the almost-glory of the second, I was expecting better from this film than Peter Jackson delivered.
Up until now he had been fairly true to the storyline. Not so with this film. I won't spoil it for those who haven't read the book and/or seen the film, but all I will say is that the ending to this film is, shall we say, different.
A three hour film is fair enough, and I can happilly sit through one. Except when the last half hour or so is as bad as this one. It could so easilly have been cut down to a reasonable length, just by following the plot. Instead Mr Jackson, in his wisdom, decided it would be good to change the ending completely and extend it by about 30 minutes.
I was on the verge of walking out it got so boring to the end.
A bit of a disappointment really. Such a shame as he started out so well with the other two parts.