Three hours and fourty three minutes! Yet waaaaaay too simple for Tolkien's book! Where's my beloved part of Meriadoc and Peregrin together with Treebeard the Ent!! Where is the 'Get up, you tom fool of a took! Where in the name of wonder is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!' !!
narration...One of the ironies is that even though Scorsese is interested in the story's wider implications, he focuses so much energy on that unsavory romantic triangle that he and the film lose sight of the larger issues.