BORED OF THE RINGS

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2003)

Peter Jackson has successfully completed his evisceration of THE LORD OF THE RINGS by removing the heart of Tolkien's THE RETURN OF THE KING leaving it void of humanity or pathos. Jackson continues his confusing and odd choices in this film revealing no confidence in the source material relying instead on more comfortable Hollywood clichés and tired camera setups which are augemented by the Playstation effects that younger audience members have come to expect and which leave others hungry for the versimilitude of Tolkien's mamoth and respected, at least by some, work. To paraphrase a touchstone phrase from the '60's `Frodo's Dead,' and Peter Jackson killed him.