Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring Review

     With all the anticipation surrounding The Hobbit which is coming out in theatres on December 14th, I decided to do reviews of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lord of the Rings is probably the most epic trilogy of my generation. I can't think of another word to describe it other than epic. I'm going to write about this assuming everyone who reads this has seen the movie. If you havn't seen this movie go watch it and then come back and read this review.
     The beginning of Fellowship of the Rings does a really good job giving an overview of the history of Middle-Earth. It goes into great detail about the One Ring of power. It was foraged by the Dark Lord Sauron in Mordor in the fires of Mount Doom. Then Iseldor cut the ring from Sauron's hand he had a chance to destroy it but the Ring corrupted him. Then the Ring came to Gollum, after it abandoned Gollum it was picked up by Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit from the Shire. He left it to his nephew Frodo. The wizard Gandalf told Frodo about the ring, one thing lead to another, and Frodo ended up on a mission to take the One Ring into Mordor to destroy it. One thing that the movie did a great job at was showing that the Ring had a will of its own. Gandalf told Frodo that the Ring wanted to be found. The Ring took Boromir when he tried to take the Ring from Frodo. He got his redemption in the end however when he died a hero trying to protect Merry and Pippen.
     The acting in this movie was phenomonal. The best performances were Ian Mckellen as Gandalf, and Viggo Mortenson as Aragorn. Aragorn was such a pivotal character if Mortenson didn't do a good job, the movie probably would've failed. Luckily, he did a fantastic job. Another thing I love about these movies is the soundtrack. The score done by Howard Shore is one of my all-time favorate soundtracks. It has its light hearted points, and it has its darker points when they're showing Sauroman building an army in Isengard.  
     Lord of the Rings is a great story about good versus evil. It's also a story about friendship and sacrifice. As I stated above I can't think of another word to describe the trilogy other than epic. There's a lot of good action in this movie, however there's also good scenes showing the relationships between the characters. This movie does a perfect job at setting everything up. It sets the scene perfectly for the next movies. Of couse The Fellowship of the Ring gets 5 stars.