Gustavo Rodriguez

What a great film. It´s very interesting to see how great almost unknown films are so well done. Sometimes people don´t care about this type of films but some of them are very good. This is a great example. Peruvian films are excellent and soon we´ll be able of watching them in competition at the academy awards for best foreign language film. This film has a great plot, powerful performances and everything a great film is all about. Try to find it now and you wont regret.

The film is interesting and exciting, there is no doubt about that. It has great special effects, that is true. Great score and great cast, it is true, except Liv Tyler, I don´t know what is she doing there. But we have to realise that this film represents the directors point of view about the book. At the end the film loses power because of the sentimentalism that is well-known in hollywood productions. I am not saying that because of that the film sucks. I am saying that does not help much. Peter Jackson falls in the temptation of directing blockbusters, forgetting that the most important element in a film is the script, and you can not say this is a bad script. Tolkien created one of the most complex drama-adventures and Jakson directed the most complex bed story. It is not bad but it can always be better, right?

Everyone was talking about the fight between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I don´t understand really because thay are totally different films, but anyway, Harry Potter is a fun film to enjoy with your five-year old child. Why? The film has a plot that seems to be written by a five-year old, it is not as exciting as the book, as interesting as the book, it seems to me that Hollywood it´s great at destroying every script that touches. Ok, the special effects are fine, it is true, but there is nothing spectacular. You are paying to see some kids talking about things that seem to be the work of a kid who wrote his last dream. Chris Columbus, has also proved to be a conventional director, who uses sentimentalism to entertain and sometimes to guide all the filme. It is no what I had in mind when somebody told me they were going to make a Harry Potter picture.