Well I liked it

Rating: 9/10 (8 July 2006)

Well personally, a lot of people, mostly critics, have complained about the movie being too long. One of my biggest complaints in movies, and a lot of movies that are parts of a series (this being a 2-parter), is that they don't take their time to develop conflict and resolution. It's all just given to you like BAM and there you have it, it's a movie. This one took its time, gave all the characters meaning, every single one. That's a real rarity in movies, but because it didn't need to focus so much on its core cast, the writing allowed the movie to expand its cast. Suddenly the crew is doing more, is more interesting. Your villain is interesting. And the conflicts are all over the place to be resolved in the 3rd movie. I think the big complaint is just that it was long with a bunch of exposition to a bigger story, rather than just being itself. I think the critics and critical fans have to step back and say, "Review this movie as if it were the first half". You all sat through Return of the King, this was easy. But when the third movie comes out, then watch the second one and decide if it really was so bad or so hard to watch. All it did for me was go, "Oh, I wanna see the next one!"