Tremendous movie

Rating: 8/10 (4 July 2003)

Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers: 8/10
As a Tolkien buff and having not been very impressed by the first installment of the movie series, I was a little wary watching this with my cousin at the cinema. However, I had a great time, and really enjoyed it. The flaws are still there, but because TTT is so action-based, it's more of an adrenaline rush. They minimized the comedy of Pippin and Merry, but Gollum just had to take over the obligatory western cinema comedy character who brings the ill-timed jokes, et. al. The part where he talked to himself (or his two selves) was deplorable. The last hour was strange, I kept saying "it's going to end now", but it kept going. It was really good and set up the sequel finale well though. I hear Return of the King will be even longer!