Better? Oh I don't think so......

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2002)

Well..... it was good, quite good.... but I shouldn't have bought into the claim that it would eclipse the first movie. I enjoyed myself, but this time I was a spectator whereas the first movie had me PUMPED. Go see it... it's great stuff, but it's not a competitor to the first one.

One thing that really pulled me out of the movie was the odd herky-jerky camera work in the big battle scenes. The fight scenes were an incredible part of the first movie but this one replaces grace with cinematic subterfuge - what happened? I don't know, but Legolas won! Not cool. I got the sense that they were running overbudget by the time they filmed the fight scenes.
To be fair, if FOTR had never been made, I'd have been awestruck by TTT but, FOTR WAS made and TTT should have been better than it was.