the greatest sword and sorcery flick of all time

Rating: 10/10 (14 May 2020)

This is the second best film in the lord of the rings trilogy based on the book but even better it is way better than the book and it is another masterpiece from the talented genius peter Jackson, it starts out showing a flashback of gandalf casting down the balrog with him falling with it to fight it to death then frodo wakes and he and sam are lost in Emyn Muil they have elf bread to eat while on their quest while they continue the creature gollum attacks them trying to get the ring but is then captured but tells the hobbits how he came to the ring and how he knows where Mordor is and Frodo lets him loose to us him as a guide meanwhile aragorn, legolas and gimli continue to pursue the Uruk Hai to save hobbits merry and pipin who they realize are being taken to Isengard. the hobbits later escape when the uruk hai are ambushed rohirim who aragorn and his team meet when they try to save companians the rohirim men tell them that their king has been poisoned by saruman and servant wormtounge. later aragorn's team encounters gandalf in a forest and he tells them how he survived and was resurrected as gandalf the white that he defeated balrog and that he was tasked to become the white wizard to help save middle earth. aragorn and his team along with gandalf then return to the capital of rohan edoras where gandalf releases theoden from the poisonous spell he then recognizes his men and realizes his son was ambushed by orcs and he also recognises gandalf and the rest of the riders and also banished wormtounge and is again the king of rohan he decides to evacute his people to helms deep while gandalf goes to get help for defeating a large uruk hai army saruman is preparing to attack, on the way orcs come on warge to attack the people but aragorn, legolas and gimli fight them back and chases away but aragorn the falls off a clif and is presumed dead but is awaken by his horse bregoo and continues to ride to helm deep where he is informed to be till alive. meanwhile merry and pipin escape to a forest where they meet the ent treebeard who first thinks they are orcs but then agrees they are not when he tells about them to the other ents they pipin then tells them to think about attacking isengard they first refuse but then later decide to do it when treebeard sees some of his other friends killed off. there is another scene where golem leads frodo and sam to a swamp of dead marshes and later a nazgul is back on wings they later continue to get to the black gate of mordor where golem tells them there is another way to get to mount doom and arguments happen they are then captured by men of Gondor who are led by Farmir who is reveals to be the brother of Boromir. then the battle for helms deep begins and here there is alot of action that is well done and when the Legolas and Gimli fight they count numbers and Gandalf arrives and kills the rest of the Uruk Hai and they achieve victory while Frodo, sam and gollum are taken to Osgiliath where Faramir learns of the ring later a Nazgul comes and Frodo puts and nearly puts on the ring in front of it but sam Doesn't let it happen and Frodo attacks him but then comes to his senses it ends with the men and Aragorn's team gaining victory in helms deep with gandalf saying the battle of middle earth is about to begin and gollum plans to take revenge on frodo by leading him and sam to shelobs lair upon arriving at cirith ungol. he is first friendly to them and they continue the quest. this is another masterpiece made from peter Jackson who is known as one of the best directors of all time this is another one of my favorite movies part of the great trilogy and it shows a great story with a great cast ensemble and great bravery the visuals are stunning, the graphics are awesome and the landscapes are well done again this is the second part of the lord of the rings trilogy and it is still great.