Better than the first? Hard one to judge....

Rating: 9/10 (26 January 2003)

When i had seen this movie i felt pretty blown away and immediately thought that it was better than the first movie. Then after a while when the movie had sunk in so to speak i found myself only remembering the action-parts of it, and there are a lot of them believe me. The first movie had more heart and soul to it. Of course Gollum had a very good performance as a CGI character and Gimli makes you laugh at times, so there is heart in it.
The fact that it didn't follow the book i had been warned about so that didn't effect me except one HUGE thing, to me anyway: The absence of Narsil in Aragorns hands. In the book he uses this white-glowing sword in the battle at Helms deep. I don't know how and when Peter Jackson is gonna "give" him it. A major fault which really ticked me off...
Credit were credits due tho, the opening scene is one of the best in cinema history.
The conclusion is that i could go either way with TTT. But all in all i think it's an improvement. 8/10