All right, but with too many lame alterations.

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2002)

I really wanted to like this movie. I have read Tolkien for 10 years or so and I really liked Fellowship of the Ring (FOTR), but I must say that I was disappointed with TT.
It is just too shallow. The character development in Saruman, Faramir, Aragorn and especially Gimli are missing and then just seem..well...we don't feel that it matters much whether they live or die.
Besides some of the scenes are really corny: Gandalf exorcising Theoden, Aragorn telepatizing with Arwen, Sam's monologue about the character of good, evil and adventures etc.
This good have been one of my favorite movies of all time, but it really is a miss. If you haven't read the books, the movie probably will appeal more to you, but if you have read the books, you will leave the cinema with the felling, that this COULD have been a great movie, but now it's just mediocre. We'll just have to wait 20 years until someone can make a proper adaption of Tolkien's masterpiece.