Extremely overrated

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2003)

The fact that the majority of the viewers are rating this movie a 10 is just sad. Is this what passes for quality current mainstream enertainment? What's the big fuss about this movie? The first one was okay, but I found this one just DREADFUL. First off, why was Liv Tyler in it? They could have cut her character out and given me back fifteen minutes of my life. I think they just stuck her in because she's a big name to put on the poster...but her little plotline lended nothing to the overall plot. I found Frodo's adventure interesting, but it was not the overall focus of the movie. It was mainly a boring war movie. And the war scenes were terribly boring...I felt like someone was twisting all nine of my piercings over and over and over again. The war scenes were just repetitive. I looked at the clock after an hour thinking, "Surely, it must be almost over!" And then I realized that there had to be another two hours left. I felt like I was being slowly tortured. I couldn't believe I wasted $9 and a Friday night.