Magnificent, a triumph of story telling

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2004)

First i'd like to say that Peter jackson has proved one thing, that is if you put enough effort, love, enthusiasm and imagination into a film production you will get the best. Peter Jackson has achieved the impossible, that is recreate the novels by Tolkien.
The books were by no means perfect, in the Fellowship Tolkien was continuing on the Hobbit. You can see from that book that as he got into the storyline Tolkien started to produce more serious dialogue and more deep philosophies. By the time had completed the ROTK Tolkien had produced a fantastic fantasy storyline but not neccessarilly a great novel.
What Jackson did was to improve on the books,yes there were flaws in the storylines and dialogue but if you have produced over 10 hours of film there is bound to be problems. The inspirational choice of Alan Lee helped to bond the films to the books.
Now to the ROTK, i've seen it three times, it's got better everytime. I cannot find a weakness in this film. It flows in a way much better than the book.
The Shelob scenes are incredible, very much in keeping with the book.
The acting of a number of people stand out:
Elijah Woods, a very underrated piece of acting. Sean Austin , fantastic, a great part. Ian MacKellan, a very superior bit of acting, totally beleavable.
Last but not least Howard Shore's music is what makes the film. We finally got away from the "Williams/Spielberg" formula. What a maginificant sound track.