not worth seeing more than once

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2002)

ok... tolkien's work is revolutionary and creative and detailed so for sake of cultural literacy one ought to familiarize him/her self with the work and the movie gives a pretty good run-down on the happenings of Middle Earth.
This movie is more suited for a dragged out television series. It was a solid cramming of 3.5 hours of 'events', that didn't necessarily improve the quality of the movie. Rather insipid one-liners, great special effects and action scenes but overall very much drawn out.
I'd say go see it because it is Lord of the Rings but it's not worth all this hoopla.
5/10