Fun battles, beautiful vistas, but nowhere near as good as the first one.

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2003)

I loved most of this film. The problem is, for every 3 minutes I loved, there was a minute I hated. One of the strengths of "Fellowship" was that it while it stayed true to the spirit of the book, it made some very smart choices about which scenes to delete or change, which translated into a better movie. "Two Towers" fails to live up to its predecessor in this respect. Many of its changes didn't add anything to the story and, worse yet, took something away from it.