fredrik-bendz

I rented this one because of the high score on IMDb. I was very disappointed.

The opening scene with the Norwegian shooting at the dog and blowing up a helicopter is laughable. (As a side note, he doesn't even sound like he's talking Norwegian.) So is the computer "simulation" calculating the risk that one of the members in the expedition is infected, and how many hours until the entire world population is wiped out.

I rented it to be scared, but there wasn't a moment that I was scared or even excited.

I give the team credits for the special effects, but that doesn't make up for an uninteresting story and the above-mentioned laughable parts.

I loved the footage and overall mood of this movie. Michelle Williams is hot as "S" - not a perfect face but very sexy nevertheless. I hope I don't sound too sexist, but she really had something.

The plot kept my interest most of the time. I didn't find it as predictable as many other comments suggest.

*Spoiler*

Some examples: I didn't expect "S" to fall in love with McGuire. I didn't expect him to require double signatures to take out the money. I didn't expect him to leave 20 million USD behind when he could have taken it and walked away. What I did expect, once I knew "S" part of everything, was that McGuire would get the money and the girl - that didn't happen.

*End of spoiler*

As a thriller, it's about average, but the footage and overall mood lifts it to a higher score, at least in my opinion. (For some reason I, several times, associated it with the computer game Deus EX: Human Evolution).

I watched this on TV, and I found it much more exciting and interesting than most of the stuff that is being broad casted today.

I was VERY disappointed by this movie when it came out. True, Jackson does a great job in bringing Tolkien's world to life, and the shots are epic. However, as a Tolkien fan, I find the film tantamount to blasphemy.

I understand that you have to remove parts of the book to keep the film at reasonable length, and I understand that you need to make adaptations of the story for the screen. What I don't understand is why you take a literal masterpiece and remove most of it just to include a love story that adds nothing, and isn't very romantic even. Apart from the battle of Helm's Deep, almost none of the events are taken from the book, and those that are have been changed beyond recognition.

I (re-)read each book prior to watching the movies - bad mistake! If I didn't have the book in such fresh memory when I saw the movie, I might have appreciated it more.

Don't watch this movie with the expectation that it's an adaption of The Two Towers. It isn't. The story is rather based on the Aragorn/Arwen story in appendix A to The Return of the King, with "a little" imagination from Jackson. They should have included much more from the book and made this story a movie on its own.

A love story staring Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler could have been a hit. It would have given the scriptwriter an opportunity to really focus on the love between Arwen and Aragorn, and Arwen's decision to become mortal, thereby forsaking her chance to ever see her family again. That's some powerful love right there! "The Two Lovers", as this movie should really have been called, fails in capturing that love. Neither does it capture the sorrow Elrond must feel, knowing that he will live an eternity without his precious daughter.

If you liked the movie, do yourself a favor and read the book for the REAL story.

This is the part of the trilogy that is most faithful to the books. I've seen the extended version with comments from Fran Welch and Peter Jackson, and most alterations make sense (unlike the other movies).

As much as I love Tolkien's books, I can't give this adaptation full score. Where is Tom Bombadil, for example? And the ghouls at Barrow Downs? Without the background, why would the audience care about the pony Bill? The cave troll looks cheesy and doesn't look like a Tolkien troll at all. And the spiderman orcs crawling the walls in Moria - where did they come from? Definitely not from the book!

There are only two reasons why I give this movie an 8. First, I love the books, and second, this movie is the most faithful in the trilogy.

While watching this movie I was thinking to myself "What an interesting plot with all these people's stories intertwined". Five minutes later it ended just as I was getting engaged in the movie and the characters.

I'd probably give the film an 8 if it hadn't ended so abruptly. I actually came here to look for a sequel because I wanted to know how things ended. I learned from other reviews that it's a pilot episode for a series that was never released.

I suppose that as a pilot for a TV series, it was great, but as a standalone movie, its inconclusive ending is really disappointing. If you don't mind a movie ending with lots of loose ends, you may enjoy this film very much. If you do, save yourself the time and watch another movie instead.

I'm not an expert, but I enjoyed how the lights and music were adapted to different sceneries (e.g. more red-ish light and Chinese-sounding music in Chinatown).

Regarding another review: I don't care if the characters don't wear genuine SF "gangsta" clothing. It's a movie for ***'s sake, not a documentary! You can't expect a fictional story to be entirely real. As a Scandinavian, I found it to be fairly realistic.