Almost great

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2003)

Short and to the point: too many tweaks, deletions and additions from the source material. The pacing seemed a little jerky at times. Mr. Jackson spends too much time lingering on details that weren't nearly as important in the book, and I can't see how they made it into the movie (basically everything concerning Arwen (Liv Tyler)). Otherwise a decent film and worth seeing (definitely as a rental). I considered FotR to be much superior as an adaptation and as a movie.
Normally I would probably give this a 6/10, but since it's Tolkien I gave it a 7/10 out of respect.