long, too long, fell asleep

Rating: 2/10 (20 April 2005)

Let me be the dissenting voice in the wilderness. I don't like this series of movies.
The special effects are flat out amazing but the story...ug. I just can't get into it at all. I've seen and sat through the first and third chapters, but the second one (reviewed here) bored me to sleep.
I always wondered why, in sci-fi movies that have magic in them, the characters don't just magically arrive at their destination. Or go by air on some creature. These long soul building adventures just are not for me.
Maybe in ten years I'll be able to appreciate this series, but not now.