The road goes ever on...

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2003)

As the first installment of the Lord of the rings trilogy was released you instantly realised that this trilogy was going to be a landpost in modern filmaking. The two towers is an absolutely fantastic film, the story allready made and one of the most loved works of fiction of all times makes it hard not to like the film aswell.
Tolkien created a work of genius and jackson and his crew has done an fantastic job of adding and expanding to that work of genius. So well done are many of the aspects of the film that it must also be considered a work of genius. The film is dramatically different from the Fellowship of the ring. Where the Fellowship was a film of many peaks and lows the two towers brings one long builup to its immense climaxes of the battle of helms deep and the fall of sauruman.
This in one way make the two towers a more enjoyable movie as you feel a constant exitment as to "what is to come". When the end comes it simply takes your breath away. The CG is brilliantly done and gollum surpassed my expectations by a mile. Treebeard is brilliantly done also. Alltho i missed Quickbeem, you got to accept that some caracter has to be lost in the movie adaptation.
The fans who have read the books seem also to be delighted with the movie adaptation. I am one of the many who has the read the books, and im hugely impressed with what jackson has managed to pull of. One character i felt was short of the books is Faramir. The Changes they made to him and the ring at that stage is something i feel underminds Faramir's nobility and strength. As we know Faramir lets frodo go at his own will after a long talk with him. I totally understand Jackson's motivations for choosing to change this part as it would slow the movie down.
Overall the movie surpassed my expectations, even after watching the The fellowship. So its a clear cut 10/10 in my oppinion.