Entertaining, but not as half as good as the book

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2004)

First of all: I liked this movie, and i could watch it an awful lot of times. But that is mostly due to the great special effects .
The point i rated this movie a 7 is because of the stupid story mistakes Peter putted in his movie. Especially the ghost army is a huge, huge mistake. Everybody who readed the book knows the ghost army does not take part in the huge fight, but only conquers the pirate's fleet, so Aragorn and his men can sail to the battle. The orcs think they get some backup when they see the black sails, but then are overrun by Aragorn, not the ghosts.
Like the thing above there are more things which i do not like. Like the snowboarding Legolas in the battle for Helm's Deep (not this movie, but still). Legolas is indeed quite handy on his feet, but snowboarding on a shield?
These are just the things which made me personally think Peter could have come up with a much better movie of one of the best story's ever written.