grnhair2001

I assume all the friends of family of filmmaker and actors wrote those reviews. This might have been an interesting short film, had there been competent acting. There was not.

In a space station, communications with Earth has ended. What has happened? Jim sends his ex-wife, a pilot? Investigator? To find out what happened. Though there is a working AI computer, and you'd think they'd just ask it. So she goes, and there's a body, and who killed him? A woman drops out of the ceiling and says "we were attacked." And then they sit and chat INTERMINABLY and the mystery is revealed and it's cliched and uninteresting and then the movie is blessedly over.

The mysteries continue to deepen. The Queen Regent ends up being a complex character that we grow to understand, not just a cruel despot.

And the visuals! OMG, the whole sequence of the baptism, the overhead shot, the drowning of Numenor...just stunning to look at.

The score enhances when it should and is subtle when it should be that.

The acting continues to be solid to excellent. Some of these actors do more with their eyes than other actors can do with a hundred words. And, thank the goddess, little to no whisper-acting, a technique I loathe to communicate intensity or anger (have those actors never encountered an actual human being? I always wonder)

I love the world Tolkien created, and I love what these writers have done with it. Jackson and his crew ruined the trilogy. These writers are making the unfinished second age works come alive on screen!