A too long travel to a too short battle

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2003)

This movie presented me with a dilemma. I read and loved the book, and I sure did like the first one. I realize that to make a movie you can´t just follow the book (that would take at least a 20 hour movie) but why waste time in details shown in the book while discarding some important effects the book causes? For example, Frodo´s journey becomes unbearable in the book, here it only seems like a long walk, only uncomfortable. And the story, honestly, becomes to slow and long for a movie. It´s ok for the book to be slow because it gives us time to enjoy the details of Tolkien´s work, but in the movie is just a waste of time. Besides all it´s downsides, it has most of what people should expect: Absolutely AMAZING special effects, Gollum is as real as it gets and the battle scene it´s marvellous, but it comes too late. My girlfriend didn´t read the book and thought the movie was allright, not as surprising as the first one, but good. So, to sum it up, for me it can barely make it. It has a 10 in special effects, but a 2 in the plot.