Epic movie,though it has it flaws...

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2002)

The Two Towers is without a doubt the movie of the year, and a worthy sequel to the fantastic Fellowship... But I still HAVE to complain about the flaws in the film. Being such a fan of the book as I am I have to complain about the things I didn't like/found strange; Worst of all is that they left out about one third of the book(climbing into Mordor etc), I can understand that if this should have been in the movie, it would have been 5 hrs long or something. Still I found it weird that such a big part of the book was missing. Hopefully we will see it next year though. Another thing I didnt like was the massive rewriting,as I am sure anyone who has read the book will agree with me. Also MUCH of the film could have been removed,the whole Arwen/Aragorn-thingy IS NOT IMPORTANT!! There. Also,some of the animation were far from perfect. Watch Merrin and Pippin riding on top of Treebeard,you can see how awful it looks. I also found the music during the Helmsdeep-battle to be totally wrong. These scenes should have some mighty war-music or smt, not that cheesy,soft crytillyoureyesbleed music. When I have said so much, I can go on and on about how good the movie actually was. It was fantastic,to say it short. The first 5 minutes some of the best I`ve ever seen. A great movie, and one of the best sequels ever...though a bit disappointing.