Remove your rose-colored lenses

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2003)

This was an okay film. Well, it would have been good if about 20% was edited from every scene. 3 hrs 20 mins for this? And parts of the end were even in slow motion like finally ending this thing was a tease. At least give me an intermission.
The first two were far better as there was actual character interaction. I recall laughing in the other films. I laughed only once during this one. ROTK felt like a giant Dragonball Z show or Pro wrestling where there's all this build up to battles with big talk and grand epic shots. Too much "it's going to be a tough battle" lines and no real characters. Where was the Legolas/Dwarf banter for example? And my lord, please I can't possibly watch so many scenes of people with tears and smiling at each other with swooshing crescendos in the background score.
There was so much heavy-handed love for your fellow man in this that it seemed like a middle earth It's A Wonderful Life.