The quest concludes and is followed by an epic epilogue

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2015)

After the victories at Helm's Deep and Isengard, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli reunite with Merry and Pippin. Pippin pulls a dumb and forces Gandalf to act before he is ready and takes Pippin to Minas Tirith while Theoden musters the Rohirrim to ride in defense of the city. There's a big battle, Theoden dies bravely, Denethor dies crazy, Eowyn stabs an ancient, unkillable ghost in the face and Aragorn goes full necromancer and summons an army of the undead.
Meanwhile, Frodo, Sam and Gollum make their way through the Morgul Vale and are narrowly missed by the residents of the dead city of Minas Morgul as they march to assault Minas Tirith. They then climb a nearly vertical staircase that goes up the side of a mountain and meet an arachnophobe's nightmare. Frodo gets captured, then rescued by Sam. Then the final push begins to end the quest in favor of the Free People of Middle Earth.
This movie, in technical quality, lies between the previous two. The acting improved, but mainly because Elijah Wood and Sean Astin didn't talk as much. There was a lot to pack into this movie, but it was handled better than in Two Towers. The battle sequences were great and in a running theme of the series, the landscapes were stunning.
Probably my biggest problem with the movie is the pacing. While the volume of information was presented better than Two Towers, it was still a lot to pack in and the movie had to move too fast to pack all the information in. Contrast to this, after the climax of the film, the pace slows to a crawl with a particular scene that comes off as somewhere between uncomfortably and comically creepy.
The acting also suffered in this movie, but again, not nearly as bad as Two Towers. The accents and forced attitudes are there, but there's one point where Frodo "flops" so comically that it breaks suspension of disbelief badly.
In all, the series is worth watching if you are uninterested in reading the massive book or you like fantasy in general.