Disappointed / Confused...

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2002)

So much opportunity so much waste. Many friends who are not fans of the book liked the film. However they liked it for the wrong reasons - "What a great action movie" they said. That is exactly what it is. I have accordingly marked it better than Conan and Beastmaster because it is far better executed than those movies of that genre. I however think the film should have been an ongoing tale of heroic romanticism based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. This it is not. Anybody expecting as much will be disappointed by the character portrayals and the plot devices which so cruelly savage the original storyline. Oh it all could have been so different - just look at FOTR!!!