The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Reviews
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Modamag.com
Maybe it's too early to criticize the trilogy when we're just getting started. However, if this signals the direction the series is going to go, I'm not sure if I care to find out what happens to Frodo, Sauron and those pesky golden rings.
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| Original Score: 5/10
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.
Philadelphia Weekly
It's a collection of spectacular set pieces without any sense of momentum driving them into one another. The damn thing just goes on and on.
| Original Score: B-
Eclipse Magazine
Endless close-ups of Wood's icy eyes and repeated zooms on the golden ring fail to draw us in to what's supposed to be a riveting quest.
Boulder Weekly
It is imaginative, fierce, even thrilling in spots. Nevertheless, as the curtain comes down, the credits should read Game Over, not The End.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Everyone on screen is all exercised about Frodo's mission, but after three hours it's hard to see why anyone in the audience should be.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Billings Outpost (Montana)
..I still came away empty, wanting more. I was expecting something that I could get lost in but instead found myself wading through some things that were less than satisfactory.
Matinee Magazine
For all of its good choices, there's something deeply wanting about Jackson's vision
Juicy Cerebellum
It is remarkably well made . . . too bad it wasn't equally entertaining.
NutzWorld
The only thing worse than a bad movie that thinks it is good is a three hour long bad movie that thinks it is good.
| Original Score: 2/4
Hollywood Report Card
definitely an epic undertaking, long with intermittent brazen fight scenes
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| Original Score: 2/4
Guardian [UK]
The Fellowship of the Ring resembles from certain angles nothing so much as a 178-minute electric mandolin solo.
San Diego Union-Tribune
The sights are ga-ga, but the storytelling gets fairly turgid.
Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews
I can't help it. I was just bored of the Rings.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Tolkien completists won't find any of this overkill, but for those uninitiates among us, less is more is still a dictum worth heeding.
Flix Capacitor
Stunning in every department, The Fellowship Of The Ring remains a stirring, spectacular achievement. The fantasy film to rule them all.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Bullz-Eye.com
It's finally here. The adaptation of the first installment from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" series, and all I have to say is, "Wow."
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| Original Score: 4/5
Storytelling in the grandest Homeric tradition.
