Blows the other two away

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2003)

This movie is visually the best of the trilogy. The oliphaunts were even more well done than I could imagine, and the other "new" characters were all exactly as I remember them from the books. Jackson also does a good job wrapping up all loose ends, although the very end did not seem to come when I thought it should. But, I must say, I was impressed with the deepness of the story as told by J.R.R. Tolkien through the eyes, cameras, and CGI of Peter Jackson and company.