worth seeing just to gaze lovingly at liv tyler

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2003)

I saw this over Christmas in London, having just trekked my ass up to my parents as the dutiful son... said happy christmas... slept fitfully on the floor... then trekked my sorry ass back down again to London. In other words, I was a bit shagged... and I found myself nodding off in the early introductory (or is that transitional, given this is the second?) section.
Nevertheless, things perked up considerably, and I managed to stay awake until the end... even allowing that it was some unfeasibly long period of time.
There wasn't enough sex for my taste, but, hey, I'm a sex-and-violence rather than sword-and-sorcery kinda guy. Liv Tyler was, for her short time on screen, transcendentally beautiful, albeit in a soft-focus kinda way. It had me thinking that rockstar sexual congress with a playboy model isn't enirely short-term gratification.
As as everyone else says, the fighting is fun, and Gollum isn't half (or even a tenth) as annoying as some other CGI characters. Naming no names, but I think you know who I mean.
I'm not convinced this is Top 5 movie, but it's definitely very good. I'd give Liv's breasts 9.5, and the movie as whole a 9. Actually, to avoid misleading anyone, this is a family (well, it's a bit dark, but fundamentally not terribly offensive) movie, and I don't think they show anything below Liv's luminous face.