Well it was nice but...

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2003)

...not THAT good... It certainly does NOT deserve over eight stars!This film was very nicely done with beautiful sceneries, settings and photographing but did it have anything else? The plot is nothing out of ordinary (which is because of the book), characters are left pretty one dimensional except for Gollum but others are just old-friends with one or two eccentricities. Other thing that explains a bit about the lack of personality of the film is the fact this is a middle-part of a trilogy. Usually these kinds of movies are sort of shifting faces for trilogies , which means that they don't have any great meaning in the story... Don't get me wrong, the movie looked very beautiful and the mass-fights were well produced on the big screen but it was nothing more than an entertain-packed action movie with some very poor humour...
Gimli didn't have any other purpose in the movie tha to serve as a atmosphere lightener in contrast to Frodo scenes. Something for the mass audiences , to be blunt. I would rate it five stars out of 10. No more.