storm in a glass of water

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2003)

What do you expect if you are going to watch The Two Towers? A perfect literature adaptation? A perfect action loaded fantasy-epic? A role-play-like character-development-story? It is none of that. It is the perfect synthesis of all. This movie combines all you can imagine in Tolkiens fantasy world. It is Tolkiens world. It describes the pessimism of all inhabitans in middleearth, the pure evil that would destroy everything. And the one, who can turn everything into light.
Of course, it is not perfect. There are literature sequenzes, which you can not adapt to a film. Who wants to see a scene taking hours of discussion - like in the book - with Theoden and Gandalf about the fate of Rohan? Within this scene, Peter Jackson improved as well as in other scenes.
There can not be a discussion about the special effects- they are genius. But all those effects just help to tell the story. All characters loose something, just like within the book. In others- Jackson and his writers did not improved well. There is a plenty of work to do within the TWO TOWERS, but we did not see the last third of the book. But what we had to see is a redundant dying of characters and a love story, which is absoltuly unnecessary. To cut a long story short - unimportant. All in all this film is a phenomenon. It is worth to see for people who love the book, and people who never read it (but saw the first part!). It can not fulfill the fantasies of readers who see a mistake where a film cannot adapt a book. But this film is a cineastic storm- it affects you even if you are attached to your glass of water.