a let down

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2006)

This movie was way too long!!! That's simply all there is to say. I loved the first two Lord of the Rings, but this movie failed to culminate this trilogy. With its five possible endings, the audience was dying to get out of the theatre by the final end. I have never seen people jump up so quickly as soon as Peter Jackson's name flashed on the screen signaling the credits. All in all, good acting, and fabulous special effects but it strangled itself in its length. Furthermore, it felt like the character development fell after the second movie. If they're watched in a row, Aragorn's attitude and character changes dramatically between them, when there are supposedly a couple of days chronologically. Same can be said for the hobbits and the Rohan characters. See it by all means, but this movie failed to live up to everything I expected as an end to this fabulous series.