Overrated.

Rating: 2/10 (5 February 2004)

The second film of the trilogy, and I went into the cinema without much expectations, mainly ensuring that I had a good night sleep the night before so I dont fall asleep like in the first one. I feel that The editors had given in to pressure and 'hollywood-ized' the movie. Making the pace faster, the action more pronounced and the plot, well, not making much sense.
Let's say, helm's deep. Great sets, big army (which, I must add, looks like recycled effects from the Mummy Returns) and lotsa fighting and loud SFX that kept me awake. However, it seems that they have caved themselves in without so much preparing to fight (say, traps in the plains, what not.) There were NO flyers here, so why were there trebuchets in Gondor and not here? Sorry, none of it makes sense to me. It just seems to be a way to make the movie look 'Epic'.