One film to rule them all

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2003)

WIthout a doubt, this is the best of the Lord of the Rings films, and even less doubtful is that it is one of the greatest films ever. 3 hours and 20 minutes flies past, and you don't notice how the lower half of your body becomes completely numb. A visual spectacle on the grandest and most refined scale, with an excellent screenplay, great cinematography and excellent acting. Some scenes which will stay in your mind, will be the march by the Rohirrim, Legolas bringing down an oliphaunt accompanied by Gimli's reaction, Eowyn v. the Witch King and Aragorn's speech. The interactions between Frodo, Sam and Gollum provide for very absorbing viewing as well. The seige of Minas tirith is amazingly done as is the battle at the Black Gate and the bit in Mount Doom. All in all, well worth seeing again and again and again...
Maybe if there was one tiny flaw, it was that the ending does seem to drag on a little bit, but after what you witness preceeding that, you don't really care.