Oh no !

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2002)

I can't believe I didn't like it that much! Of course they are some truly amazing stuff in that sequel, "Gollum/Smeagol" for instance is nearly perfect, and the 45 minutes action scenes with thousands of CGI figures are impressive even though I think the few seconds of the war against Sauron's army they showed in the opening of the first movie were more inspired. But frankly the overall result didn't convince me. The movie is definitively less cohesive and the way they shrink Tolkien's narrative is abusive: L.O.T.R. has been "blockbusterized" at the level of a cheap action film.
Following is a few examples:
- Opening: the first 10 mns are important in any typical Hollywood movies to hook up the viewer but now its getting ridiculous.
- Humor: nothing wrong with it! BUT kill-bad-guy, make-a-joke, kill-bad-guy is a pattern I've seen in too many bad movies.
- Aragorn is getting prepared for war ! Imagine John Rambo really p****d off and getting dressed for his personal little slaughter with that background music that gives you shivers...
- Legolas doing skate-board! ...
- Gimli is a dwarf and he's not tall! Ok I get it.
- Gandalf's doing an exorcist! Interesting parallel.
And it goes on and on.