mediocre reviews for it so far. Filmed in 48fps which has had mixed reactions, as well.
For someone who’s supposedly such a big fan of Tolkiens writings, I wish he’d left well enough alone and given it a running time suitable for the book’s original audience. I’m sure the big set pieces will look great, with loads of noise, but as said above it’s a kids book, and it would have been nice to leave it as such, to introduce kids to the lotr thing. No neeed for all the back story and stuff, it wasn’t relevant to the original book.
Takes 15 minutes to get to the ‘in a hole in the ground’ bit apparently. 🙂