Definitely a must see movie

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2003)

The 3-hour running time definitely felt short for this movie. But I still recommend you to read the book for a further grasp of the story and the characters. They didn't show why Gimli and Legolas become so close and friendly despite being dwarf and elf. The fighting scenes were definitely better than the first movie (where most of the scenes just showed blurry, fast and slow moving people, not knowing who against who or what kind of action was done, and so on) The SFX was amazing.
There's one thing though. Before this movie, I happened to listed to LOTR reading cassettes. I really like the voice of Gollum of that version which was a bit low and the "gollum" was more like swallowing the word itself. But in the movie, Gollum was high-pitch and its "gollum" sounded more like having something stuck in its throat. But that's just a personal opinion.

Overall, this is a very very amazing movie, a must see movie, and a must read book.