ALL-POWERFUL FINALE!

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2003)

As a long-time Tolkien LOTR fan and almost annual reader of the trilogy, I was left drained of, and at the same time overflowing with emotion, by the Return of the King. Nothing I have ever experienced in my 50 years of movie-going prepared me for the masterpiece Peter Jackson gave us. Jackson really did it - he transcended all that Tolkien gave us in that immense world of Middle Earth and placed it on the screen for all to revel in. From Gandalf to Gollum, the characters in the movie leapt from the screen into our hearts. If you didn't spend the last thirty minutes with a giant lump in your throat and tears welling up in your eyes, then you shouldn't have bothered to get out of bed, let alone go to see this movie.
This film is no longer entertainment - it is art.