Visual great, but the directing...

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2003)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Second part contains some spoilers.
Just seen ROTK in cinema and as expected: visual an absolute great movie, never seen before some of the imaginaries. An absolute must to look. As a Tolkienist, I am satisfied with the ending and can understand the differences to the book. The prolog is really good. What is not OK: every action scene is overdrawn, Jackson screwed them all one turn too much, as he want to show more than is in the book. Logic and character understanding are often lost to show even more fighting and danger and *** SPOILER ahead *** cliffhanging, where it is physical impossible. Why is Denethor acting like he does? The film explanations are much too thin. Why is the straight book explanation for his behaviour left out, when it is prepared? Every time, when there is a logical or motivative gap, a look in Tolkiens book would have helped. And less fighting and cliff hanging would be sometimes more. The big battle is much less boring than in TTT. *** Bigger SPOILER ahead *** I do not like the falling of the tower. Have to reread the book in this point, but the vanishing of the Ork army is a bad joke.