The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

With its spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope, is a dream come true.

A movie masterpiece -- thrilling, passionate and wise.

Fashioned by a buff, The Lord of the Rings is a banquet for the buff in us all. I left exhausted, happy, intoxicated.

The film's single downside is a certain nagging sense of deja vu: the fact that so many of the elements of the story -- the dark force, the all-empowering object, etc. -- have been usurped over the years (by "Star Wars" and others) that you feel as if you've been down this road many, many times before.

This is high fantasy of the best kind.

That it transcends this genre -- that it is a well-crafted and sometimes stirring adventure -- is to its credit. But a true visualization of Tolkien's Middle-earth it is not.

It's full of scenic splendors with a fine sense of scale, but its narrative thrust seems relatively pro forma, and I was bored by the battle scenes.

Hayatımda izlediğim en iyi filmdir Yüzüklerin Efendisi. Benim için çok özeldir, yeri çok ayrıdır..

1. choppy editing in non action scenes. 2. way to slow character development. 3. to much screen time devoted to unneeded scenery brochure. 4. not enough focus on Languages 5. nazgul impotence. 6. no magic battles.

Possibly people for a good movie, but for me it is another of those movies fun to hang out.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Appearances can be very deceiving. Upon first glance, this seems like a boring and stupid film about a troupe of short people who have to take a ring somewhere that's of some consequence. But this is much too literal an interpretation. The movie is actually an elaborate metaphor for something else, which is also boring and stupid. People often miss this nuance.