Best movie in years

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2003)

To try to reduce my feelings to words would be giving this movie less credit than it deserves. I must admit that I am astonished at how good a job Peter Jackson and his crew have done of tying together all the loose threads that he has woven in the previous two films. Never has there been a better adaptation of a book, and never has an adaptation made such a completely satisfying movie in its own right. I will probably see it many more times over the next few months. Fantastic special effects, brilliant editing, extraordinary acting, and most of all superb directing. If Peter Jackson does not win the Oscar this year, he will win everything else and the Academy will be ridiculed. Go See It!