| Action, Adventure, Drama |
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien (novel), Fran Walsh (screenplay)
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Running time: 2hr 58mins
Visually striking, thematically grave, and morally weighty, Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, is a miracle of a movie: a three-hour fantasy-action-adventure that not only faithfully captures the spirit of its respectable source material, the first inJ.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy of books, but also stands tall on its own merits as one of most ambitious movies to have come out of Hollywood in a long time. Eagerly awaited by millions of fans around the globe, New Line’s large-budget (more than $90m) fantasy is a must-see event movie, whose literary and cinematic qualities guarantee a strong theatrical appeal in every territory, easily crossing age and national boundaries, before becoming a cult classic, subject to repeat viewing by the book’s most ardent devotees.
The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ringbearer – to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.
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