It’s hard to believe that its been 11 years since Fellowship
of the Ring was released. When I went to see this at the cinemas, I was like a
good chunk of the audience that had never read the books. So I wasn’t one of
those that would be able to see what they had missed out. This is the extended
edition with plenty of stuff added in. The original film was always good but
what’s great about an extended edition is that it can pad things out a bit and
despite not really adding anything new to the overall story its always good to
have these bits instead of being in the deleted scenes part of the DVD.
The story itself is one that doesn’t really have much of a
key scene such as Two Towers, but what it does have is the time to show us each
character and what purpose they play. Elijah Wood is ok as Frodo but every
other face he pulls is like he’s just pooped in his pants. Sean Astin is quite
good as Sam but the bromance is what gets in the way. Billy Boyd & Dominic
Monaghan are a good double act and have some funny scenes together, especially
at Bilbo’s birthday party. Orlando Bloom is just plain annoying, Viggo
Mortensen puts in his best performance of the trilogy in this one. But it is
Ian McKellen who steals the film. Everytime he was on the screen I was loving
the film and just wished that he would be in it more. When I first saw his ‘death’
I was gutted thinking that it was the last we would see of him.
The Fellowship is a really solid film that sets the trilogy
up nicely. Its quite easy to make fun of the bromance that happens between
Frodo and Sam but it doesn’t detract from what is otherwise a fine film. At 178
minutes it doesn’t rush itself at any point and that’s good. The actors range
from ok to fantastic but it is such an ensemble film that you could get away
with a mediocre performance because there wouldn’t be time to notice.
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