Overkill

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2013)

I loved the first two movies. In fact, I liked Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers so much I watched them five times.
Unfortunately, The Return of the King seemed a rather big overkill for me - it seemed too rushed - poorly edited - an overindulgent overkill.
The scenes were all pretty epic in the book - but Jackson juiced it up too much.
I didn't like the charge of the Riders of Rohan - it just looked so... fake for some reason.
The scene when the Eye of Sauron topples over - was so laughable.
I really wanted to like it but I just couldn't. I'm sorry.
And to top it off - we get Annie Lennox singing that song at the end - I like Lennox - but I just found her version of this song lackluster. Goodness knows why ROTK scooped up all the Academy Awards. They should have given it all to FOTR instead.