A brilliant adventure

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2005)

I 've been a true lover of epic movies for my past 30 years. I watched them as a cinema- admirer, as a sociologist that I am, but mostly as a simple, middle-ranked, common in mind and ideas person.
What I expect from a movie is to CAPTURE me, to travel me inside its world, to have me. And this one certainly did.
It 's a spectacular movie worthing every inch of celluloid, every single digital bit, every second, every frame spared for it. No doubt about this. This is subjective to tell, something you can see, something that everybody agree to.
Here 's now my objective opinion (which of course is a subject to other objective opinions, and these are subjects to other objective opinions, and that's how -Thank God- the exchange of ideas functions):
First the good ones: We have here a breathtaking plot, full of agony that's keeping the viewer's interest in truly high levels. In favor of this, are the gorgeous landscape shots, the unbelievable sets, the Oscar-worthing visual effects, and some excellent performances with Mr Viggo Mortensen having the leading one. I liked also the one of Mr Mc Cellan's -and the Gollum is something that a sociologist can really stop and take a careful look at. The dramatic finale with this never-seen-before heroic battle where the trio Aragorn- Legolas-Gimli is all the money, gives an enormous boost to the whole set-up. That's the moment when you will absolutely need your pop-corns!
And the bad ones: The movie speaks of values like friendship, true love, dedication, courage. But there 's not once mentioned the name of God. Perhaps this is due to Tolkiens general "spirit", though such a movie that has been and will be seen by millions of people - especially young ones - should refer to the value of faith to God.