Good, but nothing special

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2004)

Im sick of seeing people comming out with all this non sense about the Return of The King being the best movie ever. It's by far and away the worst movie out of the three. If you look past how nice the movie is to look at, you realise how Ordinary they are. I know for a fact that if the movies had not of had so much money thrown at them then no-one would even bother seeing it. I dont see how any one can claim a movie which in parts, especially the ending is boring. All I could think when the first fade to black happened was finally, it's over. Just to find out a few seconds later that there was more and more and more. I managed to get roped into seeing again with my family and I actually fell asleep for atleast 2 hours of the movie. Now I have got the negative's out of the way I can move onto the positives. The special effects were quite good. But in most of the battle scenes I thought I was playing on the game. And that bit where legolas or should I say Neo manages to take down one of those elephant things, I couldnt believe my eyes, As it should never of even been in the movie. I have not read the books but I highly dought the Tolkien described Legolas doing that. Overall I feel the movie was probably the second biggest let down of the year, After Reloaded. I would give this movie 7/10. How ever I can't give it a fair score until next year when the 'Special Extended Edition' or The full movie comes out next year.