This entire three hour movie can be summed up in one word: AMAZING

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2003)

And, by amazing I don't mean 'mostly good'. By amazing I don't mean 'could've been better'. By amazing I mean the template for perfection. Peter Jackson's second act of the trilogy, "The Two Towers" is not only three hours of eye candy, but three hour of ear candy, heart candy and any other kind of candy. As everyone knows, the second act is always the hardest, but Peter Jackson seemed to make this great film with ease.
The story, continuing from "Fellowship", focuses on two plotlines: Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) meeting Gollum (Andy Serkis), who leads them to Mordor and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) helping the Rohirrihm. The writers did very well blending these two stories together, just like Tolkien did.
The star of this movie is without a doubt Gollum. Even though he is a complete CGI character, he turns out to be the opposite of Jar-Jar Binks. He isn't comic relief, he isn't there for cute laughs, he is the same, tormented character as he was in the book.
Of course, the action in this movie ranks up with "Braveheart" for great Medieval warfare. As most know, the last forty-five minutes of this movie is one long war scene. Despite being so long, it never becomes boring or cheesy, and you're never getting restless in your seat. In fact, you're on the edge of it the whole twenty-seven thousand seconds of it.
This film still has faults though, as all do, but they are miniscule compared to the great brilliance. There are but two things in "Towers" that bugged me: the slightly overdone love story between Aragorn and Arwen (Liv Tyler) and Gimli's (John Rhys-Davies) delve into comedy. I'm not saying that Gimli wasn't funny, I'm saying that he wasn't as dramatic as he should have been.
As I said, the faults are tiny compared to the brilliance. "The Two Towers" never even comes close to disappointing, 9/10.