A great cinematic achievement!

Rating: 10/10 (18 April 2007)

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stands out as the second best of the Trilogy, the first being The Fellowship. The directive skills of Peter Jackson and how he managed to draw up nearly six units working together, is really awesome. The cinematography of Andrew Lesnie is very enthralling and I think he must have won the Best Cinematographer award for all the three movies. The guys at Weta Digital are really marvellous. Its because of their imagination that we got to see such a spectacular portrayal of moving images on the screen. Hats off to Stephen Regelous for creating the MASSIVE CROWD DEVELOPER software, which was used in the battle scenes. The soundtrack by Howard Shore is mind-blowing and the track, Gollum's Song by Emiliana Torrini stands out.
The creation of the fully computer generated creature, Gollum is the highlight of the three movies. Its really amazing how such a character can be created using the keyboard and mouse of a computer. Each of its facial expression seems to be so realist, just like a human being. Andy Serkis's performance as Gollum is awesome. Gimli, the dwarf provide some humour to the movie, when all the other characters speak only serious stuff. I liked the Helm's Deep battle scene, where he asks Aragorn to throw him into the crowd of Orcs at the gate, provided he does not tell the Elves about it.
Frankly speaking, I have never read the Lord of the Rings Books before watching the movie. But the movie has left me captivated into thinking how the imagination of human beings work. Its so marvellous.
I guarantee that it is going to be the greatest movie for a long, long time to come.