First movie better.

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2002)

With not so great anticipations this movie could have rocked my world, sadly I'm not even shaken by the experience.
The movie has some major problems:
(1) There's no red line, the whole movie just seems chopped up in pieces.
(2) The performance by the actors is often too theatrical, the lines don't come as natural as I'd wished them to come and from time to time I sat there thinking "Why would someone say anything like that"
(3) Some of the special effects seem cheap. The thing with the trees (I know what they're called and all that but I don't want to spoil the fun for those who haven't seen the movie/read the book(s)), the way the light was applied to Gollum: in some scenes the lighting on him wasn't at all like that of the environment which made him look to computer animated for my taste.
But there are glimpses of light in this movie: Gimli is fun, Legolas cool and Gollum is really nice.