I believe I have just had the most perfect film experience in my life. The one that I struggle so hard to have has happened effortlessly.

Me, I’ve had a very personal reaction. It is the realization of everything that IÍve said I was hoping this would be. It is an uncompromisingly perfect telling of a fantasy tale aimed directly at the intended audience with 0% pandering, told by a team of artists helmed by a director of singular vision inspired by the God’s of old.

This film makes Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone seem like Jackanory on a low budget.

I was going to devote today’s extended column inches to a comparative think-piece about

Lord of the Rings versus Harry Potter. But there is no comparison. Potter was made by a committee

masquerading as a director. Rings is made by a genius masquerading as a normal human being.

Director Peter Jackson has created an oxymoron, an instant classic.

This has been a dismal year for film-making. Only the other day I was lamenting the fate of the Academy when it comes to making their end-of-year choices for the Oscars….
Fortunately, their problems have been solved. All they need to do is give Lord of the Rings every Oscar for which it is eligible and save ourselves a lot of guesswork next March….
This is the most audacious, exciting, spectacular, breathtaking, imaginative and flat-out entertaining film I have seen in quite some time.