9, the movie

[amethyst73]

I rented the movie 9 (not Nine) and watched it on my phone this weekend while flying to Michigan. In it, Elijah Wood plays a cross between a Gatherer and a Sackboy who stumbles across the One Ring in the first five minutes of the film and, having no concept of its importance, brings it to Barad-Dur and uses it to activate Sauron in Big Evil Badass Robot form. Most of the rest of the film is spent running away from Big Evil Badass Robot and its hordes of slightly less badass robots. Near the end, Elijah Wood discovers that he and his Sackboy buddies are all effectively Horcruxes, in that each of them is animated by a piece of one human's soul. Once Sauron is defeated and the One Ring is removed from him, the soul-bits of the Sackboys it ate are free to go up to Heaven and make it rain. The remaining Sackboys are left to inherit a postapocalyptic and blasted world, to make of it what they can.

Conclusion:
Pretty animation, lousy dialog and story. There are plenty of other movies you can rent for $2.99 off the Android marketplace that will kill 80 minutes of airplane time much more engagingly.