Big disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2005)

I had heard that this was the best of the three. I thought the first one was very good, and the second one almost as good. So, why was I nodding off during the final episode? For one thing, the story isn't all that interesting. Characters abound but there is little depth to most of them, despite the extravagant amount of time available for character development. And really, yet another orc siege on a human stronghold, with a flimsy subplot about a father attempting to burn his not-quite-dead son. Nothing really new or interesting to add to the previous two episodes. I don't know which are more boring, the elves or the ghost army. And don't get me started about the extended epilogue. Pointless.
I apologize to the many true believers, but this movie is a bloated, boring, anticlimactic conclusion to the series. The three films as a whole provide a decent adaptation of trilogy. Unfortunately, the concluding episode only detracts from those that came before.