Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
A marvellously sympathetic yet spectacularly cinematic treatment
of the first part of Tolkien's trilogy, Peter Jackson's
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the film that
finally showed how extraordinary digital effects could be used to
support story and characters, not simply overwhelm them. Both
long-time fantasy fans and newcomers alike were simultaneously
amazed, astonished and left agog for parts two and three.
Jackson's abiding love for the source material comes across in the
wealth of incidental detail (the stone trolls from The Hobbit,
Bilbo's hand-drawn maps); and even when he deviates from the book he
does so for sound dramatic reasons (the interminable Tom Bombadil
interlude is deleted; Arwen not Glorfindel rescues Frodo at the ford).
New Zealand stands in wonderfully for Middle-Earth and his cast are
almost ideal, headed by Elijah Wood as a suitably naïve Frodo,
though one with plenty of iron resolve, and Ian McKellen as an
avuncular-yet-grimly determined Gandalf. The set-piece battle
sequences have both an epic grandeur and a visceral, bloody
immediacy: the Orcs, and Saruman's Uruk-Hai in particular, are no
mere cannon-fodder, but tough and terrifying adversaries. Tolkien's
legacy could hardly have been better served. -- Amazon.co.uk review
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