Mixed emotions

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2004)

For the first 40 minutes I was disappointed, because there were many dialogues without any sense in them and absolutely unconvincing play. But it got better, the actors improved, the action started to take place and Brad Pitt started showing the audience that he's more than just a pretty face. Just like Eric Bana, in whom I was disappointed a lot last summer with Hulk. I was satisfied today. He did good. In comparison to Orlando Bloom. I feel sorry for the guy, he gets this low-profile, more action, less talk roles over and over again, if it goes that way, I'll be sad, he is talented, he just didn't have the space to show it. The minute he started practicing with the bow I was screaming inside: Honey, where have you lost your blond wig and the rest of the Fellowship? The poor guy. Staying in the same slot is better than falling back one floor, but worse than any kind of improvement, Orlando. I hope he'll do better next time. CGI is well done, the rest of the cast is magnificent. (Just to think about that rivalry Pitt vs. Bana and hats off for Peter O'Toole). The fact that I've found annoying in the movie: some of the characters' names are not spoken mostly throughout the film. Not that it bothered me, for I know the legend, but what about the ones that don't?
But actually it is good. It is action, it is romance, it is a tale about loyalty, about heroes and cowards, about the battle fought for the greatest thing on Earth - Love. And it gets better with every second you spend in that movie, in that story. A total and magnificently done gotta-watch-it-this-season-movie.