Amazon Puts 3-Day Hold on All Reviews After User Ratings Sink ‘Lord of the Rings’ Spinoff

Amazon has invoked a pause on reviews of Prime Video content at a time when its “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is awash in bad reviews.

The pause was noted by The Verge, which explained that the policy was originally designed to prevent so-called review bombing in which one movie or show is flooded with terrible reviews.

The Verge said Amazon explained through a representative that the idea was to be sure bots were not taking over the reviews.

Bad reviews are a fact of life though, for the show that offers a new take on the “Lord of the Rings” saga. Amazon has said its 25 million global viewers in the day it premiered is a very positive sign.

Rings of Power is so bad.
I couldn’t even laugh at how bad it was because I got a headache in the first five minutes trying to process what I was watching.

This series is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has ever read a book or watched a movie.#RingsOfPower

— Hylia Yggdrasil (@Hylia_Yggdrasil) September 2, 2022

House of Dragons is Bad, Rings of Power is Bad.

Turns out Wokism just turns everything it touches into just bad.

— Kibs (@CapnKibs) September 3, 2022

Over at The Hollywood Reporter, the news is that the show has “overwhelming negative reviews.”

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The site Rotten Tomatoes gives the first episodes a 2.4 audience score.

For example, a reviewer named Brendan C, opined, “The writers are stunningly incompetent in that they do not know how to construct a narrative. The problem is not just that there are too many storylines, although there are, but that none of them would work on its own.”