TERRIBLE

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2002)

I don't understand how so many millions of people can be obsessed with this movie. I was looking so forward to "the fellowship" and it let me down. Then the buzz on "the two towers" was great, so I had high hopes for it. I haven't been this let down from a movie in a long time. I can promise you I won't be in line for "the return of the king". First of all the whole movie was basically made on computer which takes out all the realism. Beside the action, the story was just boring. And that's not giving the action a thumbs up. You've got 10,000 of these huge beasts marching towards this "fort knox" type castle, against 300 or so people. Yet when the fighting starts, rarely do you see any of the 10,000 beasts killing anything. Instead, Aragon rides through them like a hot knife through butter without a scratch. Come on, that's just awful. The movie completely relies on eyecandy, which is not how to make a movie. What happened to great movies with a great story and great dialogue. I'm looking very much forward to the day when the last of the lord of the rings series is out of our minds and out of the media. Terrible movie!