With this movie, when you didn't read the books, you cannot understand why so many people read them!

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2002)

The movie is really interesting for the restitution of the landscape...only if you haven't seen the first opus. The characters are incredibly boring or predictible: there is no hero, no frightened but courageous people, no desparated quest, no impossible mission because everything is so obvious. The evolution of Gandalf is explained with five words and it's over. The battle is such boring than you laugh when Gimli says few bad jokes and just after you feel ashamed about it. The Ents are the most efficient way to sleep I've never seen; the scene in front of the Mordor's Gate (when they hide themselves with their coats) is unbelievable (even if the explanation will be found with the third movie); Faramir's behaviors have no sense, and Legolas isn't a fighter, he's a surfer!
Fast food, fast movie.