I walked out of the theater disappointed and angry.

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2003)

I have never seen a movie this disappointing since The Lost World: Jurassic Park. I have defended the first Lord of the Rings against Harry Potter's fan, against people who don't believe in To Be Continued in movies, or people who just hate the fact that the first movie starts out with blank black screen for almost one full minute. I love the first movie to death.
Don't think that I expected too much out of the Two Towers. I expected so little and they gave me even less. The fact that the movie is long is never a problem with me. However, why is the Two Towers long? Can it be that the director keep focusing on mountain range, and sky? Why? We know that mountain and sky existed, we saw them before. If it's a little, may be I can understand. But it's sad when I feel that I can show all the story element in one hour when the movie took three without a reason to.
One of the thing I hate the most about the movie contain a tiny little spoiler that won't ruin any big surprise. The King lost his son and said that a parent should never have to bury his child. How cute. Yet at the battle, they have children fighting the war against Saruman's army. How does that make sense? Little boys (as young as 10 from the look of it) can fight war better than Grown Woman who hid cowardly in the cave? That's insulting to both the male and female gender. It's a very sensitive subject, so why tackle it when the book didn't have anything about that on it.

The movie turn from something that is deep and look like a classic in the making (the Fellow Ship of the Rings) to something that is boring, long, and senseless. Oh, and the Gollum. The so-called most realistic CG animated character ever. I think he was pretty cool at first. But there is one scene where he was talking to his other self. Instead of showing the two version of him, they keep switching the camera and only have one Gollum on screen at the time. What was that about? I thought this thing was make by computers, why not just make two of them or have it talk to its reflection or something? I feel that I am very fair for giving this movie a low score.