Awesome. left me speechless.

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

When I left the theater after I saw TTT for the first time I was totally speechless. This movie blew me away. One review somewhere said: this movie is less true to the book then "the fellowship of the ring" was, but it was more true to Tolkien. And I think thats so absolutely true. There were indeed quite some changes to the story but most of them didn't bother me too much. But Tolkiens hate for industry and all the messages from the story of lord of the rings (power corrupts, you cannot get peace without sacrifice) were so well done. That was all really great.
Spoilers in the next part: I loved the elves at helms deep. I'm a great fan of Haldir and it was SO sad that he died, but also very, very beautifully done. An immortal elf seeing he is a mortal as well, in a way. Aragorn was great in this movie and so was Legolas. It was great to see him with more emotions, something I thought lacked his character in the first movie. Gimli became the comic relief and I thought he was very funny indeed.
And Gollum... I can't say much more then: WOW! He looked so amazingly real, and the Gollum/Smeagol dialoges were great.
The only thing I didn't liked was Frodo almost giving the ring to a wraith. It was very unlikely that the Wraith didn't take the ring to Sauron at once.

But other than that the movie was awesome. I will watch it at least 4 times more in theaters (but I'm hoping on t least 9, once more then I saw the fellowship) and I have given this movie a 10. It will probably become my most favorite movie of all.