The End of the Trilogy and it's good, except the end!

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2005)

The first 2 films were very good and not having read the books, i really wanted to see this, everyone seemed to think it was the best of the three movies and I didn't know what was going to happen next.
I sat down expecting to be enthralled for another 3 hours, and to be fair i wasn't disappointed, that is until the end, unnecessarily it tainted the entire point to the trilogy.
I'm not sure if this happened in the book but, here we go - Frodo reaches Mordor, has a pretty good wrestle with his conscience and with Gollum, and finally throws the ring into the fires of Morder.
Great nothing wrong there, so end the film.
But no, we then see the world collapse all around poor Frodo, (who's already had a pretty bad time) and he finds himself trapped on a rock surrounded by the fires of Mordor. And there it is, in flies Gandalf on some winged beast and whisks him to safety. What a crock of s**t! Why didn't the sadistic git's who sent poor Frodo on this voyage, just give him one of those winged beasts in the first place and save him a whole boat load of trouble.
This ending really tainted the entire illusion for me, and a trilogy that i could have loved, left me feeling a little cheated.
For its attempts at greatness i give it 8/10, but it would have 9 or maybe 10/10 if it had ended a few minutes earlier and not contrived to achieve a bigger climax.