A Great piece of film making (SPOILERS!)

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2003)

All has been said before but here goes: ROTK is an excellent end to the trilogy. It had several heart-lifting moments, and I found myself holding back tears. Magnificent performances (especially Bernard Hill, Sir Ian, Viggo), perfect and well-blended special effects and true (enough) to the books screenplay.
My favorite parts:
-Aragorn challenging the dead people: he truly showed his kingly nature there.
-King Theoden's speech to his riders just before they attack and the way he rides before them and touches their spears with his sword. Yet another king!
-Gandalf's and Pippin's conversation about death. Overall Merry and Pippin were great.
-Amazing ahots of Nazgul flying and attacking people and horses.
-Sam and Frodo
-Every time Aragorn or Gandalf pronounce "Mordor" or "Minas Tirith" - they pronounce it almost as it would be pronounced in Finnish.

Minor gripes:
-Some timing issues: Pippin runs up and down Minas Tirith to reach Gandalf or to serve Denethor. The city is quite high for doing this fast!
-Sam and Frodo are far from the Mount Doom when Aragorn and the remaining soldiers arrive to the Gates of Mordor.
-The mumakil-fight: though cool, it still was an unnecessary addition to the story. And it never looks real enough when someone is standing on a large, running cgi-beast.
-The endings... Though I understand and appreciate the effort to close the story properly, I found myself waiting the movie to finally end.
But to sum things up: Absolutely a fantastic movie of a fantastic book. My second favorite of the trilogy, FOTR (EE) being the best (as it was the best book also). Waiting for the extended edition!
Rating 10/10
Thank you PJ and every one else participating the process!