One of the best movies ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2003)

I went and saw the second film in the trilogy the day it came out here in Australia (26 December 02) and I just have to say the air in the cinema was electric, we all cheered as the lights went down and cheered again when the New Line Cinema logo appeard. Peter Jackson's take on the trilogy has only gotten better with The Two Towers. Considering how brilliant The Fellowship of the Ring was this had a lot of expectations to live up to and by far it met every one of them. The battle of Helms Deep, what more can I say then mind-blowing, Gollum and Treebeard were fantastic and the addition of cast members Bernard Hill, Karl Urban, Miranda Otto, Brad Dourif and David Wenham fantastic. Andy Serkis is a brilliant actor and made you pity Gollum at times and then at the same time feel repulsed by him. By far the hobbits are still my favourite characters, I loved Merry's speech to the ents about being part of Middle Earth, it is by far one of my favourite lines in the film. Sam was gorgeous and of course Elijah Wood brilliant as Frodo, not forgetting Pippin, who was great too. However I do believe that Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Karl Urban (Eomer) didn't get enough screen time, but hopefully Return of the King will change that. All in all a brilliant film, I didn't even realises the three hours it went for. 10/10!