As a lover of cinema, Jackson s film bored me rigid; as a lover of Tolkien, it broke my heart . " He thought the film was " so stuffed with extraneous faff and flummery that it often barely feels like Tolkien at all more a dire, fan-written internet tribute . " " Time Out " magazine's Keith Uhlich praised the film as " a mesmerizing study in excess, Peter Jackson and company's long-awaited prequel to the Lord of the Rings saga is bursting with surplus characters, wall-to-wall special effects, unapologetically drawn-out story tangents and double the frame rate ( 48 over 24 ) of the average movie . " " The Guardian " magazine's Peter Bradshaw commented on use of high frame rate technology and length of the film, writing " After 170 minutes, I felt that I had had enough of a pretty good thing.
