What is all the fuss about?

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2002)

You know, I love fantasy adventures as much as the next person and stories of great conflict are always interesting since conflict is the essence of dramatic structure but for me 'LOTR: The Two Towers' is a grim and foreboding tale without a sense of sweeping grandeur. Perhaps this is the way many interpret the book and for that matter, that may be the very core of the way it is supposed to look from the words on the original pages. I just don't see anything that shines through that makes you care that the good guys win. Films like 'Star Wars' and 'Braveheart' (although the good guy lost here it was still still fun when he was winning) have much more feeling and sentiment combined with booming action and terrific characters. I just see 'LOTR' as bleak, too dark and too under developed in its characterizations and I found some of the creatures to be inaudible when they spoke. As far as other films from the past are concerned, at least we COULD understand what Yoda was saying.