A Theory to why some were disappointed

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2004)

Before I went and saw this film all my friends kept talking about how good it was and that its probably the best film ever made. Even the voters on imdb thought the same. So you can imagine my excitement when I sat down in the cinema. First of all, its a good film, don't get me wrong on that. But the trick with sequels is to make something new every time to capture the audience interest. In the first film, "The Fellowship of the Ring", they told us about all the characters, showed us the beautiful landscape, the way that people lived and explained the incredible history of the ring and what had to be done. This film was mainly about their journey towards Mordor. It also had some great action sequence but not those huge battles between the army's, like the ones in the second and the third film. Here we saw how the different characters fought, and it wasn't the same fights over and over again.
In the second movie they stunned us by showing the great army of the orcs and built up the excitement by showing us the moral being built in the humans heart, and we knew that they were ready to die defending the castle. You really got chills running through your spine. This battle was powerful and nothing like you have ever seen before. They also had some new characters presented that were very interesting
And here it comes, the third film "The Return of the King". Like the previous films it started out very good and you couldn't take your eyes of the screen. And the scenery and camerashots was absolutely amazing! But then it was time for the big battle. OK, it was exciting, but we have already seen this kind of battles in the second film and it didn't feel special to me. Especially when they had these battles over and over again. It felt like watching an "ordinary" war movie. Don't get me wrong, the fights were pretty good but it didn't feel special. And like I said before the trick with sequels is to make something new and interesting. But to me it didn't feel like that. Once again, it's a good movie but I dont think it was better then the second sequel "The Two Towers"
I have found out that Im not alone looking at it from this perspective. Tell me what you think!
(sorry if the grammar or spelling wasn't correct. English is not my native language)