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Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2003)

If you want to watch a film with great action, great effects, a great cast, and just basically great everything, but you're sitting on a couch in your living room wasting away, get your sorry butt off that couch and go to your theater to go se this film because it's just OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The action scenes are great, ranging from the 3-5 minute Warg attack sequence to the around half-hour Helm's Deep battle.
The Warg attack is just great of the pure drama from slo-mo close up of Legolas firing an arrow to a wide shot where he fires another arrow with all the Rohirrim riders coming up behind him, then to him leaping onto his horse.
Then the climax of Helm's Deep is great, beacause you have about 300 defenders at Helm's Deep, about 9-8000 Uruk-hai, attacking, then you have 2000 Rohirrim led by Eomer and Gandalf charging down; it's like a biblical climax.
The film also has a great film score (music.) Like the Lothlorien thematic thread played in battle mode when the Elven archers start the battle, to the Isengard theme. Another great piece of music is when Aragorn is washed ashore after he falls in the Warg attack, and the music for the Last March of the Ents.