Great until the last 20 minutes

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2003)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy will certainly go down as a masterpiece overall. The third installment picks up where the second left off. There are battle scenes colossal enough to make it a classic.
Spoilers: Both for the review and the film.
What I didn't like was the lack of suspense. It seemed certain throughout the whole movie that Frodo would complete his mission. Not a single headliner dies. Frodo loses a finger in a scene and then later we see his hand undamaged.
Even worse is the slow motion homoerotic scenes with Frodo and his Hobbit buddies lolloping in bed together with Gandalf and the other humans looking on gleefully. I almost thought it was some kind of a joke it was so gaudy.

While these flaws dilapidate the movie I can't say they totally ruin it. If I ever see it again I won't stick around for the last drippy moments.