OK for a kids movie

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2005)

But being an adult i view this as an extremely well made but ultimately boring movie. Reminds me of the movie "Dune" that came out 20 years ago and laid an egg. There are so many characters to follow that unless you've read the book, it just gets too confusing.
The battle scene at the end was spectacular but it just drug on and on and I never understood why gandalf didn't just use his wizardry to win the battle for aragon.
And then we come to the stupid kids. Thankfully the kids didn't try to play cute and make the viewer retch but they're still kids and simply don't make believable heroes.
I've now seen the first two LOTR films and i thought both were pretty poor but i rate them as 5s because of the great special FX.