Excellent but...

Rating: 8/10 (17 July 2003)

After seeing The Fellowship of the Ring the previous year, I was really looking forward to the second instalment. I must say that I came out of the multiplex with mixed emotions.
While it was an excellent movie - the acting was superb, the locations stunning, the stunts and FX quite the equal (if not superior) to its predecessor - I felt it was a little disjointed. This was no real fault of Jackson's, he remained faithful to Professor Tolkien's vision. It just seemed he was trying to be everywhere at once - following two, sometimes more, separated groups.
All in all, however, still oceans ahead of most other action/fantasy fare coming out these days.