Still didn't hit the mark of the Fellowship

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2003)

Amazingly filmmaking in terms of visual style, texture, and composition. Peter Jackson is by far leagues ahead of most modern filmmakers. Yet in still, this installment (albeit much better than Two Towers) did not pack the emotional punch of the Fellowship. For instance, the battle scene in the end of Fellowship felt engrossingly real, whereby death and the unity it creates for our heroes remains without rival the best epic fantasy film to date. In Return of the King when Aragon shows up to fight with ghosts from the mountains, it felt like I was watching a video game ( largely my criticism of most of the action scenes, much like the two sequels to Matrix). Yes the film is better quality than the crap that continues to plague cinema but Mr. Jackson raised the bar so high with the first installment and for me at least lowered it by creating video game cinema in the last two. My opinion, please take no offense LORD fans. I'm still with you.