The film is transgressive, innovative, and not afraid to take over as the definitive work of recognized worldwide work of Tolkien

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2015)

The Return of the King comes to the big screens worldwide in 2003 evoking the most diverse types of feelings: sadness, joy, delight and satisfaction are some of them. After two adaptations that have shocked the world with its grandeur, director Peter Jackson presents fans around the world with a performance worthy of applause and bows certainly will miss and leave an empty feeling in the mind of anyone who likes movies. Peter Jackson had the challenge of overcoming the stigma that the end of trilogies are always inferior and never meet the expectations of fans. Thus, citing some examples, The Matrix Revolutions, also released in 2003, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Back to the Future 3. The fear of not overcome the previous growing further because The Two Towers have been a landmark in special effects and maintained the same level of quality The Fellowship of the Ring. Fortunately, Jackson has not only surpassed their predecessors, they created probably the greatest fantasy film in cinema history, an epic beyond compare proportions and practically unattainable.
In The Return of the King, the action is raised to four points that will interconnect in a spectacular finale. Frodo, Sam and Gollum are heading toward the mountain of doom. Gandalf and Pippin help in preparing the defense of Minas Tirith, Merry joins the army of the horsemen of Rohan who will prepare for the ultimate battle. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas are in search of help that may be decisive in the battle against Sauron. The scenarios and events are magnified and more majestic. The various passages for those who read the books will come to life: Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor, Aragorn entering the Paths of the Dead; battle where Faramir is seriously injured, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the opening of the Black Gate, the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Mount Doom, the Chambers of Fire, to help the Eagles against Sauron's armies, the destruction of the Ring and the defeat of Sauron, the Return of the King of Gondor with Elvish name Elessar and his marriage to Arwen that preferred to live a mortal life alongside his love, The Grey Havens, etc.
The Return of the King, however, has excesses in your script. Probably due to the pace and duration, Jackson decided to remove some passages from The Two Towers and insert them in The Return of the King, further increasing the duration of the latter film, leaving you with 201 min long version released in theaters. Apart from scene to increase the length of the already quite long film differs from other facts book and technically, the film is almost perfect and became the record holder by winning the Oscar 2004, 11 of the 11 nominations received statuettes at the awards, equaling in number of awards only to Titanic (1997) director James Cameron and Ben-Hur ( 1959) director William Wyler, who have the same amount of premiums. Won awards for best art direction, costume design, editing, makeup, soundtrack, original music for the song "Into the West", sound, visual effects, adapted screenplay, direction and best film.
The visual effects are still tasteful and make a junction between actual filming practically perfect computer-generated. The scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, fought outside the walls of Minas Tirith, is the greatest example of this. Probably that's the longest streak of battles ever held in the cinema,The cast can once again have great performances. And when Peter Jackson said in interviews that the first two films were preparing for this end, he was not kidding. Its direction is the major difference and that is what makes movies differentiate themselves from other similar launched later worried only with the battles, and not with the feelings of the characters and their motivations. Again with beautiful general plans, stretches with use of slow motion and camera movements unthinkable, the director explores all too well the natural environment and which was built by art director for the shoot. The New Zealand ties all the stories parallel so that everything can be solved simultaneously. But The Return of the King is not just a fantasy film with effects, and he cares to enlarge tensions, hesitations, internal struggles, motivations of the protagonists involved. The key of this third part is mainly in the hands of Aragorn and Frodo. Aragorn have to return to Gondor and take the place it is right and lead the resistance against the enemy threat, including having to collect a debt from the past. Here it is Frodo, is increasingly tempted by the ring which carries this internal conflict and leads to the last moment when you are about to destroy it.
But Jackson increases even more the importance of Sam, showing all his courage and fidelity to the hobbit friend so he can achieve his goal. Jackson still has other moments of pure wisdom and sensitivity amid such scenes of war exhaustive. For example, when Denethor sends Faramir (David Fenham) on a suicide mission, asking then to Pippin sing a song while you eat something. Jackson then makes the viewer watch the scene Squad Faramir being massacred while listening Pippin at the request of Denethor, sings a sad song.
The Return of the King is a masterpiece of cinema magnanimous and impassable. Is beyond reproach and is practically a unanimous vote of the seventh art and has everything that an overproduction epoch must have. We have a script respectful of the original work, interpreters' unquestionable quality and revolutionary teams ahead of all technical teams. The film is transgressive, innovative, and not afraid to take over as the definitive work of recognized worldwide work of Tolkien. Is left longing and buy all the extended versions to always have a Middle-earth in our hands to be visited at any time.