immensely boring

Rating: 5/10 (7 December 2003)

Part one nearly put me asleep in a crowded cinema, part two finished it off. I'm not kidding, I really slept for several minutes! I like a good action movie almost as much as i like Fellini's 'Otto e Mezzo' or Bergman's 'Persona'. I mean, brainless joyrides and intellectual tedium both keep me awake. Mind you. I read Tolkien twice, rather liked it, but don't belong to the zealots who deem it unfilmable. This film comes fourth in the imdb top 250! What?!? Yes, fourth in the list. 'Commit it then to the flames'.