Winner of Snorefest 2002 award

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2002)

This review contains spoilers.
This is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Each plot element was over-drawn out. It took 3 hours to tell what could have been told sufficiently and more interestingly in 90 minutes. The main plot elements were: 1) Frodo finds thats the ring is getting heavy 2) Saurons forces are rising 3) Pippin and Merry spend the whole movie in a tree 4) Gollum has 2 personalities.
The use of helicopter shots became very irritating after the 15th use the technique in the 3rd minute of the movie. Also in the middle of the final battle sequence they kept cutting back to a bunch of trees talking, what an idea to keep the action flowing.
The long battle at the end was the same thing over and over. Not to mention both sides had stupid battle plans. The humans defense wasnt even slightly planned out. It was totally unbelievable.
Then the boring subplot with Arwen aerosmiths daughter, I mean really, who cares if she dies. She was in the first one for 5 minutes anyway.

It is also very silly that this movie is already number 9 on IMDB top 250 movies of all time. I can easily name 10 movies much better than this. The only reason it is so high is because people want to have a little geek war between star wars and lord of the rings so the movies can have a higher rating.
I contemplated leaving early as I started to fall asleep and I had to wake my girlfriend many times. Seriously dull movie.