Not too positive!

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2004)

Actually I was hoping for a grand finale! Since the first installment was a glorious epic tale, and the second was a piece of rubbish, I was thinking that this moive would at least save the triology's face. All starts good, with a nice version of "the becoming of Gollum". But to my dissapointment, once again, the story is told with the use of too much action scenes and some bland conversations. And a gruesome amount of corny one-liners! The feel of an epic dissappears the moment the first flashback comes and the undeniably bad actress Liv Taylor makes an appearance. Yuck! Adn what's the deal with Eowen? She was alright in "The Two Towers" but now she suddenly becomes this "girl power" icon. "I'm not a man!", she says and slays a Nazgul... So what you say? Well, it's not the fact that she isn't a man that kills the Witchmaster, but the fact that it's a Elven blade that strikes him. And if I recall it correctly it's Merry who deals that strike. If the movie only would of stayed true to the book! WHY DOESN'T IT? This was a once in an eternity opportunity... and that dork Peter Jackson blew it! As a movie-fan I'm appaled and as a Tolkien fan I'm angry! RAPE!!!