Best yet

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2004)

At least in this the third film Peter Jackson made a passable attempt to stick to the original story, unlike TTT and TFOTR. Sam gets his moment of glory against Shelob though i would have liked to see more of the Elfhelm and Merry wounds and Aragorn the healing hands of the king. I dunno, maybe i expect them to follow the books to closely. I truly enjoyed this film and cannot wait for the special boxed edition to be released in November of 2004.
This has got go down as a must watch and deserved its clean sweep of the Oscars - though it would have been nice to see the actors for Sam, Frodo, Gollum or Gimli get a nomination.
Gollum is excellently portrayed and the dual minds of Gollum/Smeagol are some of the best scenes to watch.
On the whole - well done Peter Jackson and his cast - now do The Hobbit - PLEASE.