Utopia and hell.

Rating: 5/10 (1 August 2006)

The movie is, as always, about an evil force fighting and losing against a good force.There is no character transformation, no maturity in story telling and a dark massive use of special effects clouds he entire movie.Surely its a visual spectacle but I found myself dozing off halfway through the movie. One device that is often used in this trilogy is the effect of "almost" - Frodo "almost" gets killed, the ring is almost lost, nothing really happens out of the expected, just as plain and stupid as an average sci-fi crap. I felt no star-wars like awe at the atmosphere created in the movie; just plain "let this end soon" ennui !