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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

Peter Jackson

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin ...

8.0

193,363

Fantasy. Adventure. Action "One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." In this part of the trilogy, the young Hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits a ring; but this ring is no mere trinket. It is the One Ring, an instrument of absolute power that could allow Sauron, the dark Lord of Mordor, to rule Middle-earth and enslave its peoples. Frodo, together with a Fellowship that includes his loyal Hobbit ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is an awesome production in its daring and breadth, and there are small touches that are just right (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Colin Kennedy Empire	"Impeccably cast and constructed with both care and passion: this is a labour of love that never feels laboured. Emotional range and character depth ultimately take us beyond genre limitations (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The Middle Earth (...) is brilliantly realised (...) There is a strange paucity of plot complication, an absence of anything unfolding"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Fellowship' is the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, and yet stays intimately attuned to character. Even when the film hits bumpy patches, it never flies off the rails."	POS
United States	David Hunter The Hollywood Reporter	"Quite masterfully paced and one of those rewarding movies that seems to get better and better as it progresses (...) The production design, cinematography, countless special effects, costumes, makeup and score are all top-notch"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Jackson has simmered the novel down to the most compact action-epic that could be made of it (...) The playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Only the most expansive imagination could dream up a spectacle of such eye-popping proportions"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Peter Jackson emphasizes the territorial nature of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth by fascinatingly playing with lines of division."	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"Funny, scary and, totally involving (...) [It] turns the book's least screen-worthy volume into a gripping and powerful adventure movie (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'The Fellowship of the Ring' looks to please the book's legions of fans with its scrupulous rendering of the tome's characters and worlds (...) Jackson keeps a firm hand on the work’s central themes of good versus evil"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"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."	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"This movie version of a beloved book should please devotees as well as the uninitiated (...) On film, it's an epic buddy movie/road picture (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Radio Times	"Only someone with a pathological aversion to fantasy could fail to be absorbed and transported by this stunning, sincere and frequently terrifying adaptation (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope... a dream come true."	POS
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"Not since the original Star Wars trilogy has film dipped into myth and emerged with the kind of weight and heft seen in Peter Jackson's first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"It’s the three most exciting hours we’ve seen on a movie screen in years."	POS

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