Perhaps it was just me, or the years have rolled by and what once looked good does no longer, but the film also felt a bit less artful in its visuals than the Lord of the Rings were. Too much reliance on heavy CGI this time around, with a couple of the villains not looking all that convincing for my money. In Fellowship of the Ring the Uruk Hai were very well made up and armoured real guys, and that gave the fight scenes a weight and punch and reality that was very much lacking here. The action was a bit cartoonish, a bit uninvolving. There was a cheesier sense to the whole thing.