10/10 WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2002)

Before I start I just want to tell you that i have not read any of the books and my frIend who loves them came with me and said that they totally screwed the ending up.
The movie starts where the FOTR left off and within 30 minutes we are introduced too Gollum/Smeagol. the graphics used on this character are simply astounding and at times I actually forgot that he is computer generated. The scenes where he is talking with himself were well done but confused me because I haven't read the books i thought that one of them was Gollum and the other was Smeagol but after my friend told me what was going on I understood fine.
It revolves around 3 groups of people not just one like the fellowship did. The battle of Isengard and Helms Deep were incredible, Helms Deep is by far the best battle scene ever in a film, however I felt that it dragged on for too long.
Gimli provides the comic relief of the film but sometimes it seem out of place. Apart from these problems I loved this movie and it was better than the original.
Many of the scenes in this film provoked reactions from the audience such as
Legolas jumping on a horse in slow motion, Gimli's jokes, Gollums....JUST PLAIN GOLLUM, Legolas uses his shield as a skateboard to go down a staircase while shooting arrows,
OVERALL A FANTASTIC FILM THAT IS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL