awesome

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2016)

It's a thrilling three-hour epic that flies at a gallop, boasts the most impressive computer graphics yet created, and succeeds smashingly as grownup drama and kid-captivating fan. When Gandalf arrives with reinforcements, descending a near-vertical slope using horses where you or I would use snowboards, the spirit of triumphant rampage is something rarely glimpsed since the days of Olivier and Henry V. To live up to expectations, The Two Towers only had to be as good as its predecessor -- and, astoundingly, it's better. The battle for Gollum's mind also provides a fitting teaser conclusion to the second act of a story I'm beginning to wish would never end. Part two is more a straight-ahead action flick, substituting brawn and brawling for the pastoral radiance of the first film. this three hour epic is one of those few films where you leave feeling they could have spent even more time with story explanation and exposition