Absolutely boring

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2003)

Oh, the pictures itself are pretty enough, but the film itself lacks any kind of depth and/or character development. After 1 hour of watching this in the cinema I kept asking myself "How much more? When will this finally end?". Both LOTR installments have the same flaw: the characters are hopelessly flat. It's very hard to feel anything at all for Frodo and his companions, frankly I don't care whether they live or die (in the movie). I must say that this is basically true for all Hollywood blockbusters at this moment, pretty pictures but no depth and a worthless plot. Having said that, this is a nice demonstration of what modern computers are capable of (however I could do with 2 hours less of this demonstration), so it still gets 5 out of 10.