Yes, the spotlight was rather questionable. Not only did it leave closed the important question of whether or not Sauron was physically manifest during the War of the Ring, it also, as Estel said, hindered the idea of Sauron's all-seeing nature. The Eye was interpreted far too literally by Peter Jackson and his team. Its use was excellent in the first movie (flashing across the screen as Gandalf touched the <I>palantir</I> and the Ring, etc.) but it soon become a somewhat laughable, unauthentic symbol of Sauron's power. Furthermore, in its role as Spotlight of Gorgoroth, it looked rather ridiculous.
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...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.
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