Come on now, number 4 film of all time????

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2004)

Not to say that LOTR/ROTK isn't a good movie, it certainly is. It is, however, not one of the best of all time! As a trilogy it's one of the greatest next to the original Star Wars, but to single it out as one of the greatest films of all time is simply not warranted. There are many more films that are deserving of this honor, which I won't even name cause we all know, except for the fanatics of course. In my opinion, ROTK is the weakest of the three films. My favorite is the Two Towers. It really bridges the two films, and sets us up for what one hopes to be a great finish, but ROTK lets us down too often. I will give ROTK 6.5 out of 10. I just felt that ROTK should have had much more to say. Unfortunately, piddling around with material that many have heralded as great cinema has proved to be the case here. ROTK was simply flat on the emotional level. I hope Peter Jackson goes back to what he knows best, splatter films. Probably not.