If you can see past the non-stop special effects, beautiful fantasy landscapes and wonderfully committed performances, you'll realize that the script for this elephant is turgid to the point of fossilization. Unspeakable dialogue beneath swooping camera moves can't hide the fact that there is not a single interesting idea in three hours of exposition. Quest, quest, quest. The ring is evil. Quest, quest, quest. The folks who voted this film up there in the company of Godfather and ABOVE Citizen Kane in the IMDB list -- well, all I have to say is -- you need to take a crash course on 10 decades of film history.
