A Huge Disappointment!

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2003)

While part one and two were highly entertaining and watchable, the trilogy's last part, "The Return of the King", failed completely to engage.
Peter Jackson's changes were understandable in the first two movies, but here he lost everything: the plot, the message, and even the actors: Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen gave good performances as usual, the "hobbits" did a great job, but the characters of Gimli and Legolas, already badly neglected in part one and two, have practically disappeared. Bloom and Rhys-Davis didn't even get a small chance to prove their acting abilities here. (There's also no believable reason for deleting Christopher Lee's scenes.)
The technical side of the movie is again pretty good, but this time it's the only reason to watch it. A pity!