Towering

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

If you expect to see the continuation of fantasy saga of Epic battles of Good Vs. Evil, a hero struggling against the powers of darkness, decent not-wooden
acting showing at least a bit of emotion, exotic and mysterious locations,
Christopher Lee playing a memorable villain and at least one believable digital character... forget George Lucas and his miserable attempt to win back his
crown in the field he once ruled. This is it. The Two Towers is an expectable of such overwhelming force, you'd shed a tear of pure joy as one of the (evil) movie characters did in one of the many
memorable scenes. I can't even decide which is my favorite. One thing which will keep this movie for being properly praised other than
annoying Tolkien geeks with its inaccuracies, is that it doesn't feel like a
complete movie. Its beginning looks as if you entered the theater five minutes after the movie started, and the ending doesn't have the chapter-closure felt in Fellowship. Yet movies can't get any better than this. From the scary scenes at the swaps to the heartbreaking love story between Aragorn and Arwen. Gollum is the first CGI character in a live action film I can say has a soul. This has to be one in my opinion, of the best movies ever made.