Reviews
The Lord of the Rings
Directed by Ralph Bakshi · starring John Hurt, Anthony Daniels and Philip Stone
- 3 from the press
- 6.2 · 4 votes
The Lord of the Rings: reviews
- 6.4 AverageMovieNCo
- 6.2 Users4 votes
- 6.5 Critics3 reviews
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Reviews
6.2 4 votes
What the critics say average 6.5 from 3
- 8.0 Empire
"What most people remember is the mix of the live-action tracing within the traditional animation and just how effectively creepy it managed to be, but for the time this did a pretty good job of adapting the dense novels."
Read - 6.0 New York TimesVincent Canby
"The film is visually compelling even when murk overtakes the narrative."
Read - 5.5 Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
"Falls far short of the charm and sweep of the original story."
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Questions about the reviews of The Lord of the Rings
- What score does The Lord of the Rings have?
- Readers give it 6.2 (4 votes). The critics, 6.5 on average from 3 reviews.
- What do the critics say about The Lord of the Rings?
- The highest score is Empire’s (8.0) and the lowest Chicago Sun-Times’s (5.5).