The Amazing Ring Go's on and on

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2003)

It's possible that over twelve hours in one day was too much for my brain to handle but after having seen the LOTR trilogy today my favorite LOTR is still narrowly, the Fellowship. This is not to say that Return of the King didn't blow me away, it did. The problem was that I think Jackson didn't want it to ever end. There are multiple times during the final twenty minutes that said well that was great now it's over and it weakened a very beautiful finale, IMHO. Just shortening some of those goodbye scenes by a little would have helped a lot.
That being said I still rated it 9 out of ten because this is one of the most exciting and beautifully filmed movies I have every seen. The battle sequences were incredible. I will see it again. I wonder what the director's cut of this will look like. Hopefully not more endings.