Tolkien Review

Movie fans we are living in an age were everyone is getting a biopic made about them from rock stars to writers it seems that hollywood cannot get enough of the biopic. Well know we have another one this time as you might have guessed focusing on the author of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien and as a fan of the movie adaptations of those books I was excited and now here is my review of Tolkien.

The premise of the movie is Tolkien as a young boy becomes friends with a group artistic people at school and eventually falls in love with Edith Bratt but an event happens which threatens to tear his relationships apart. I've just made the movie sound alot more exciting then it actually is because the actual film is so freaking boring no joke i'm writing this review as i'm watching the movie that's how boring it is and trust me I will be bringing this up again because it's a big issue.

The film stars Nicholas Hoult as J. R. R. Tolkien , Lily Collins as Edith Bratt , Colm Meaney as Father Francis Morgan , Derek Jacobi as Prof. Joseph Wright , Anthony Boyle as Geoffrey Bache Smith , Patrick Gibson as Robert Q. Gilson , Tom Glynn-Carney as Christopher Wiseman , Craig Roberts as Sam and Pam Ferris as Mrs. Faulkner. In terms of what I thought of the performances there was only two actors who I thought gave a solid performance and they are Nicholas Hault and Lily Collins the rest of the cast range from ok to flat out bad.

Now this is a big budget biopic and that's means that alot of what actually happend isn't going to make it in the film for one reason or a another. I personally don't know anything about the authors life anyway so I can't tell if something was removed or changed but judging by how the film is presented I get the feeling that there's alot more to this story then what the film is letting on and if so then it's a shame that things did get cut.

Now as one would expect this film does have homages to scenes from the Lord Of The Rings movies and while those were indeed fun to say they didn't really help with the film. I say that because whenever one happened it served as a reminder that I and I assume many others could be watching a better film. I do get they put them in there because he's is most well known for the Middle Earth series of books but at the same time they could have been done in a better way.

I'm not going to lie there are some things about the film that I actually thought the film did really well like for example tolkien's love of language I thought was wonderfully done. I also loved Nick's performance in the film especially when he has these wonderfully smart sounding things to say and he says them just like how I pictured the real life tolkien would say them and for a biopic that's a truly great thing.

I've said this before in this review and i;m going to say it again this film is so freaking boring you'd have thought a film about one of the best writers that England has ever produced would be entertaining. Sadly tho it's not and lot of that is because for large portions of the film nothing happens not just nothing of interest but nothing in general. Also adding to things is the fact that the films jumps around in time alot and I mean alot in one scene we could be in London before the start of the first world war and the very next for no reason what so ever we could be in the war itself.

Oh yeah that thing that threatens to tear his relationships apart doesn't happen until the third act that right there is just flat out bad screen writing. If your going to do that then you better have an entertaining movie but since this film isn't entertaining in anyway all we get left with is a boring film where your left waiting for something anything really to happen and that's not what you want from a film what so ever.

The film does handle the romance between Tolkien and Edith really well in my opinion and that's great because she's his one true love and so if they didn't get that right then the movie would fall further apart. It's done well because they don't just see in each other and fall in love they actually spend alot of time together , you see them get to know each other and that's not something you get to see that often and often means that that part of the story is badly done but here is told rather well and was well acted.

Now for those of you who don't know this is the first film released by Fox after there buyout from Disney and indeed Disney handled the distribution of the film. Like many of you i'm guessing I thought that the latest X-Men movie would have that honour since it's a big summer blockbuster but nope it goes to this little known drama about a writer and that to me is a great move because more people should be told about Tolkien.

Overall this movie is a boring mess I don't even think that fans of the Lord Of The Rings will enjoy it that much they'll certainly like it more then people who don't know about either Lord Of The Rings or The Hobbit or didn't see those movies but for me it gets a 3 out of 10. I would talk about the fact that the Tolkien estate want nothing to do with this film but as far as I could find they gave no reason as to why that's the case.