spectacular movie making

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2003)

Wow, was this movie worth the wait. The Two towers picks up where the Fellowship ends. This movie is not better or worse because it is a continuation. Its part of one big movie that the great writer J.R.R. Tolkien fit into three books. Let me begin by saying that the cinematography and visual effects alone make the movie worth seeing.
The familiar characters from the first movie return and we are introduced to new ones. In this film the characters are more fleshed out. We see how the burden of having to destroy the ring has on frodo and sam. The characters of Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas all go on their seperate ways to fight the orcs and help the people of the town of Rohan. They all must fight against the forces of Saruman and his evil soldiers called orcs. The two new characters that really blew me away were treebeard and gollum.
Gollum more than the former was such a rich and conflicted character. He is totally computer animated, but we feel his inner pain and conflict within to resist the ring. We want him to be good and turn his life around. The battle of helms deep at the end is one of the best I have seen put on film. The only other battles that even rival it are in Braveheart or in the Patriot. Both of these are Mel Gibson movies which are both worth seeing.

In my opinion Peter Jackson is a genius for bringing these movies to life. They will go down in history as one of the best trilogies ever made. Everyone should see this film.