Poor character development & emotionless dialogue create disappointment

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2003)

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I love the book and Fellowship of the ring was fairly good. There was one thing wrong with it and that was there was no emotion to the movie. As if they were following a script and said ho hum. When Gandalf fell, there was no emotion. When another dude died after that I felt nothing.
They failed to correct this in The Two Towers. And whats worse is that it's all battle scenes. Only a few characters in this movie. No character development. In every Star Wars movie, there's been character development. So for some reason Peter Jackson decided that all the character development was done in the Fellowship. It doesn't work that way.
Another problem. Special Effects. What special effects? The trees look like they came out of the Neverending Story. And that was almost 20 years ago.
Yeah of course the battle scenes are probably totally computer animated, I'm not griping about those. I just think this movie fails to deliever. I certainly hope Return of the King is much better than this.
My recommendation, go read the book. (preferably the all in one LOTR book.)
6/10
Quality: 7/10 Entertainment: 10/10 Replayable: 9/10