Pretty good

Rating: Null/10 (24 December 2002)

This movie I give a 7 out of 10. After reading the book I was just a bit disappointed because they left a lot but added scenes to make up for it. I was extremely dissappointed when I found out there would be no scene where Pippin looks in the Palantir.
The characters have the same qualities. The comic releif goes towards Gimli, Gollum, Pippin, and Treebeard while the action aspects go to Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf, Eomer, and Ugluk. The new characters are awesome and portray there wholes exactly like the book. Grima Wormtounge I have to say was the best.
The Scenes that left you at the edge of you seat the most include: Helms Deep, The Black Gates, The Wargs, The Olipaunt, The Ents taking over Isengard, and Gandalf healing Theoden.
Overall the movie was good but just needed the extra touches that Tolien describes in his excellent novel.