Good, but not brilliant

Rating: 6/10 (16 July 2010)

This was the weakest link in the the lord of the rings trilogy. not to say that this is a bad film but it just seemed to drag on far too long for me...the scenes involving Frodo and Sam climbing mount doom seemed to go one for an age, i thought that what was a very small piece of a huge ensemble was given far too much screen time.
this may be just because it is the final instalment of a trilogy but i felt that there was too much emphasis put on trying to wind down the story which i believe made the film seem slightly laboured. however the quality of the previous two films is to class the lord of the rings as one of the truly great movie trilogy and also a brilliant adaptation of a book which, granted only reading it once at a reasonably young age, i found a bit overrated and seemed to drag on more so than the return of the king.