this is what happens when you don't focus enough on character development and have a thin storyline. I was so disappointed, but it you never follow up the best trilogy in history with a knockout. highlights of the movie are the new elements, but they are few, meaning you walk out of this movie wishing you had of just rented it (and could stop yawning). Firstly, the relationships just aren't there. Unlike the Trilogy there is no buddy movie start with Mr Froddo and SAM. no slow building up of the troop, and the link from Gandalf to Bilbo is tenuous. And Gandalf is just plonked in the movie without much back story. Its hard to care about the characters if they don't really care that much for each other. This prequel pushes the concept of home hard, but the writer should have spent more time on the characters, and less on assumed knowledge of those involved.
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Joy Division
(2006)
clumsy
3 December 2012
clumsy and heavy handed...I wanted more London and less flashback and the narrative just doesn't work. The rape scenes are really unnecessary and add nothing to the story. Less telling and more showing would have helped this movie. The more I watched the more I fast forwarded through the WW2 scenes (which is weird for me) and shot to the spy / intrigue elements. Funnily enough though after the movie and I had gone our separate ways I still enjoyed the redeeming features, namely, the concepts tackled in the movie - loyalty, the past, control and freedom. Hey who thought to the put the SAME surf rock song in the girlfriend London scenes? Whacky...
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