Better

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2004)

I find this film a better film to watch than FOTR. Some might complain about the pacing - true; but with Gandalf fighting the balrog, the battle at Helms Deep, and the attack of those werewolf thingies? And overall better epic scope than FOTR; oh did I forget to mention Gandalf and the riders of Rohan trodding down the slope? Fantastic!
I didn't like Sam Wisegamgee's VO at the end though. There's also a hint of their optimistic, yet slightly sick and desperate conversation about being in storybooks at the end though.
The writers and PJ don't end like the TTT book does. They saved the real ending for TTT for ROTK, and if you watch ROTK - which is also a great film; you'll be impressed as to how they managed to rechronologize it along with the battle of Minas Tirith. Anyway, if they ended it this way for the TTT movie adaptation, it wouldn't have felt right. It would have made the movie overly longer and was gonna stray away from its main plot's resolve, and other issues.
Grade B-