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.