If this is the way to Mordor, I don't want to go.

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2002)

I've taken my last step to Mordor. After sitting through the first movie, I thought I'd give this a try. Boy, am I sorry I did! Because even though the movie was beautiful to watch -- New Zealand IS lovely -- that was the only thing that was worth looking at. The characters were boring, the dialogue unremarkable, and the plot -- well, what plot? Mostly it consisted of people running from one spot to another, badly in need of showers and shampoo. My concern isn't with what they left out, it's with what they put in! A lot of herky jerky camera shots of impossible to follow battle scenes and boring scenes with boring characters. I spent most of the movie asking my poor husband what time it was. We would've walked out, but thought the couple we were with wanted to stay, and they thought we wanted to stay, so instead all four of us ended us wasting three hours -- a total of 12 -- and $32.! Don't make the mistake we made. See something -- anything -- else!!!