Different from the book, but...

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2002)

As a movie this was, of course, amazing - Helm's Deep was better than I ever imagined. But if you have read the books and are a "Tolkien geek" like me, you might be a little disappointed. I don't want to give anything away, but they have changed a lot more from the book for this movie than they did for Fellowship. And sometimes what they changed just doesn't make any sense. It all starts to noticeably change when they leave for Helm's Deep; also, Frodo and Sam's encounter with Faramir is drastically different. It still works for the movie, I suppose, and people who haven't read the books wouldn't have a problem.
Aside from those differences, it is still amazing. The amount that has been changed can almost be forgiven by the amount of little details they managed to include!