Amazing!! And ALMOST perfect!

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2004)

Wow, like the two earlier films I was stunned - mind you, I never read the book, and always wondered about this wild fascination so many have gotten with this series....and eventhough films taking place outside our own time never really appeal much to me, I understand that fascination now, cause these films are incredibly catchy, no doubt..
My only quarrel with this particular film, Return of the King, is the fact that the ending is SO damn long! After the final battle which hardly allows you to blink once cause you would be affraid of missing anything, it ends off with about a 20 minutes long afterplay, showing whatever happens to the leading characters in the story. It is fine, and ofcourse you want closure, but 20 minuters of slow speed almost makes you fall asleep after 3 intense hours. This afterplay could easily have been a lot shorter and you would still get the same out of it......however, that is the ONLY quarrel I have with this film, and I'll give it 9.5/10, but as that is not possible, I'm afraid I have to round it down to 9/10 although the film is much better than that.