The most visually stunning experience you will ever have

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2008)

After about 5 years since seeing The Return of the King, I finally saw it again, and I saw it like I had never seen it before. I had never been a big fan of the trilogy, basically because I was young, and I had never really gotten 'into' them, but now, I was able to see it in a whole different light. First off, I will start with it's visuals. They were just amazing, and based on how many visuals it had, it is probably the most visually stunning film I have ever seen. Sure, there were just little flaws in them, only like when the hobbits had to be reduced to size, but other than that, the visual effects is flawless. The tone of the film really lets us experience a whole new world, so it's Art Direction Oscar win is of course, very well deserved. It's costumes and make-up are simply amazing. This is a top-notch film for anything possible. What I also really liked, that it has garnered much fan and critical acclaim, is that, it is a fantasy,action,epic war film. The Fellowship of the Ring was more fantasy, and The Two Towers was more war/epic, and this 3rd one has all those elements put together. The weakness of The Two Towers was that it had too much lingering in dialogues with characters we hardly knew, and were hardly given development to, and the editing in the 2nd I thought was very choppy. Well, the editing is this film, has improved about 100%. It is edited in the right moments. What is amazing, is that we are able to go from scenes with Frode,Sam, and Gollum, and then to scenes in Minas Tirith, to Aragorn and Gandalf. The acting from all of these actors is well-suited for a 'big' film like this. Even the acting from the Hobbits(which is sometimes over done) seems like for this film it needs to be done. Andy Serkis, who plays Gollum's voice and movements, should have gotten an Oscar nomination, for he created probably the most memorable creature of the last decade. Overall, the 11 Oscars this film won were all very well deserved. It is not overrated in any way, because the amount of work and the amount of risks that had to be taken to do this film is incredible, and I believe this film will always be remembered as the mother of all epic films.