panorama does not equal epic!

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2003)

It seems clear to me that Jackson has somehow confused "panoramic" with "epic" and therefore spends most of his time panning across vast vistas and/or showering us with spiralling aerial overviews. Sadly, in the midst of all this photography, he neglects to actually tell a damn story!
I wish film-makers could/would learn that CGA isn't film-making -- there is roughly 3x the CGA in this film that there was in the original (or so i understand) and seemingly correspondingly it is 3x less well realized, narratively complex, weakened character development etc.
IMO easily the weakest of the three films...