Epic follow-up is not as cohesive as the first

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2002)

The massive scale and immense battles in the Two Towers eclipse anything else you will see in modern cinema. Certain frames are truly overwhelming in scope, yet the ironic trend is that the battle scenes come across as slightly underwhelming and anti-climactic; due to some less than ideal editing and jumping between disparate plot-arcs.
Also, excluding the superb realisation of Gollum, characterisation does not match that achieved in Fellowship, which -- just as the novel does -- has a more cohesive narrative.