How can you think it's great?

Rating: 5/10 (3 January 2004)

Great God, I bet that almost nobody of all the people thinking this is a great movie has ever read the book! And some even claim it's "very faithful" to the book! This movie is full of rubbish, boring Hollywood conventions imposed on Tolkien, and usually when it drifts away from the book, it ends up in stupid mistakes. Like "The Golden Hall" of Theoden, which is nothing more than a woodcutter's cottage (and all the Rohan people presented as silly rustics!) Okay, Gollum is great, but special effects cannot save the day. Talking about special effects, they are TOO many here, too many. It's all battle and nothing more. Silly Hollywood action, that's what it is.