Epic cgi battles in an unbalanced story

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2002)

Last night the maybe most awaited film of the year premiered across the globe. The sequel in the trilogy of films and books, lord of the rings - the two towers. As I sunk down into the darkness of the cinema I could feel vibrations in the air, the air felt thick and sticky, the filmgoers emited nervosity. Me myself, I never expected all that mouch, true I enjoyed the first film, enjoyed it to the grade that I would rate it a 7 out of 10. Tough after the first hour I began to feel that this film could turn out better, the more action based sequel gave a better impression on the big silverscreen, epic battles in beautiful terrain with stunning cgi. The costumedesign, makeup, original score, cgi where all top notch, but, these things does not necesairly make a good feature. In this case the overuse of cgi disturbed me alot, todays technology does not allow cgi we can truly see as realistic. The industry has to wait a few more years before successfully pulling of a film with this amount of cgi. I'll rate the two towers with a 8 out of 10 for its story and beautifull design, what drags it down is the overuse of cgi and that I find the story to be a little unbalanced.