Cheap, nasty over-rated film for the those who are fooling themselves

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2002)

First of all this movie is shot with the cheapest cinema film stock giving it a dark blue orange tinge. If the so-called budget was as large as purported KODAK deep vision would have been used to provide rich colour.
This film drags out demonstrating the lack of skill from the director. The battle scenes are totally incredulous and totally predicably notwithstanding the premise that most viewers would be obsessed by the original book.
The continuity of the film is another sign of bad directing and editing.
The acting was even worse with the same portentous tone being used throughout almost every line of dialogue. The attempt at light humour using the "dwarf" (who appears to change in relative dimension throughout the film) is simplistic to the point of banality.
The box office success of this film can only be attributed to the blind obsession of those who loved reading the trilogy.
The rest is astute marketing. The CGI effects are all plagiarised from other films and the artistic direction the same.
The evil forces have the same face structures as the vampires in "Dusk til dawn" and the rest look excessively much like computer game imagery.

This is long boring film with repetitious droning music soundtrack that just keeps on repeating. The cover of and adaptation of a famous Children's mythologically based novel turns it to a graphic depiction of bloody battle scenes far to unwholesome for a child audience if not overly boring for them as I observed.
The schizophrenic depiction of the mind battle within the Golum is excessively much overworked and to the extent, where you feel like you are listening to a broken record.
Lord of the Rings cultists will bit of footage as they indulge themselves in the illusion that this an epic masterpiece. In fact, it is cheap and nasty overrated and highly marketed money making venture by arrogant and conceited rich trust fund moviemakers in New Zealand.