Not bad, but not a masterpiece...

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2002)

Possible Spoilers..I think?...First of all, i have never read any of the LOTR books, but i don't think that changes anything...i hate it when people dont like the movie because its not faithful to the book...it's almost like they bring their books to the theatre and try to check to see if the movie follows everything in the book...anyway.....am not gone talk much about the good things in this movie because everybody else has pretty much done that.......i think the music in this movie is a little too much...there's a symphony playing in every second of this film and it makes it way over dramatic, thus, it looks like it's trying to be a Masterpiece and in result it actually loses that quality......and everytime the camera goes on Gimli its pretty much expected of him to say something funny and i dont know if that's how it was in the books but it just does'nt work here.......and why did Saruman's army have to look like that...they look like the creatures from "The Time Machine"... It's kinda like a company makes these creatures and sends them out to multiple movies as "Evil Creatures".......But, puting all that and many other things aside, overall it's an okay film... Peter Jackson might be getting a little too much credit for this film..I still think the most powerful thing about this film is the story itself which had nothing to do with Peter Jackson... He did co-write the screenplay which i think was Terrible in "The Fellowship..", but was actually not too bad here... and finally, i thought Gollum was one of the most realistic looking CG creatures i've ever seen... so, a good film, but not a masterpiece...