Review -- Sweet Weeping Jesus -- Greatest Flick of the past decade.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2002)

Seriously, the greatest movie I have seen in the past 15 years. Amazingly well acted, and not one character was left without that opportunity. One can say that Viggo Mortensen just rocked this film, and with the subtly and sheer understated quality of his acting became the movie's heart and soul, and made every woman swoon at the same time. Finally, we have returned to the screen the humble, quiet, real manly hero it has been desperately looking for for a very long time. He's up there with the greats and I am absolutely psyched for the next film.
The CGI, animation, and total look of this unpretty fairy tale, was beyond perfection, and Peter Jackson is a genius. Ian McKellan, of course, gave the film a class "A" in acting, and everyone else kept up their paces, from all the hobbits to Elijah Wood. Just the most perfect film for what it says, how it looked, the acting, the drama, and even the slight comic quality at moments never went overboard to make this ever campy. Very seldom does any film HAVE IT ALL, this one does. This one does. One must see this film at least two times to intake all of it, seriously, you miss so much on just one viewing. It's almost too much greatness at one time on that screen. A MUST SEE, and if you haven't seen the first in this trilogy I have a question, "Are you living in a cave?" :~)