Wagner might do better

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2003)

Many people commented that more than three hours passed by when the movie finished. It's not hard to explain: just note how slow the people speak, always rendered in a Hollywood-heroic form; or otherwise it seems that they are acting under influence. Other moments, they just gaze at each other, or the landscape, and then the epic-ish (Irish?) music starts. The movie could be compressed to 90 minutes. And still, three hours aren't enough for a decent portrait of the personalities: the good guys talk like saints, the evil ones like worms.
The plot is the same old one: people run around to fight the evil and save the world, with every episode looking like the end of the world. The visual effects of the fighting scenes are exceptional, but it is not dissimilar to a combination of Jurassic Park & Last Samurai & The Eruption of Mt St Helen.
Probably a good preparation step to the Ring Cycles.