nafmo

The movie is just as overrated as the book is. I like fantasy and read a lot of it, but Tolkien just doesn't "get there" with his stories, and neither does this movie. The movie itself is beautifully done, but without the backing of a solid story, the whole thing is just meaningless.

It might have been worth the watch if they had actually finished the story (i.e combined the three books) and removed 2½ hours of the fighting scenes. As of now, it just felt like a three hour wait before the end where almost nothing had happened.

Kudos for the nice environments and soundtrack, though.

For an action movie, it was quite okay. It could, however, had used a little more thought-out plot. It didn't say much about why things happened, like, in the beginning of the movie, what the heck where the vikings doing down in Arabia anyway? And where did they go?

The series were of a very shifting quality. The first half of the series wasn't very good, but the latter was... very good, and only got better and better.

It's just unfortunate that the series was ended prematurely. I hate it when that happens with good shows.