Great End to a Great Trilogy

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2004)

The perfect end to the perfect Trilogy. After seeing the whole trilogy Return of the King is the best by far for the shire size of the film. With it bringing closure to the trilogy it helps as the story finally ends without any more questions having to be asked.
I was pumped up for this film to have the greatest battle scenes ever to be seen on the big screen and bloody hell it did but they were CGI so brave heart still tops the best battles ever. When they finally clash there is a scene where the camera hovers over the entire battle and everyone is just in chaos in battle and it looks so good from a CGI point of view I got excited I nearly did something embarrassing. When watching poor Frodo as well trying to climb up to the volcano to finally rid himself of the Ring was one of the most spiritual and powerful scenes in cinema history because you are screaming inside even though this is a film to cheer Frodo on and to find the strength to keep going and not to give up. When Sam is carrying him all the way to the top and says `Let be rid of it for good' just brought me tears as they kept on going and never giving up which was just great and had a message to it. Also on the other side where Aragon and the rest march to the gates of Mordor to give Frodo and Sam a chance to get past all the Orcs. When Aragon sees they are completely surrounded and not much of a chance of survival and Aragon says `for Frodo' and they all just run right into the army is what we have all been waiting for since The Lord of the Ring started.
I wouldn't say it was to long either because if you really want to get a real feel for the story then it has been lengthened out to the time it was. Just imagine what the four disc box set is going to be. It will probably stretch to five disc if it's true what they are saying about the extended editing.
Just great.