A different telling of the same tale.

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2002)

While much more action packed than Fellowship, Two Towers manages to capture the humanity of the events much more emotionally. It is in fact very altered from the original tale. The Lord of the Rings in itself is a tale being told by one man. When one man tells a tale it is different from the last telling. Jackson's version of the story is not a verbatim transcript of the books, nor does it pretend to be. It is nothing more than his own telling of a tale that was told to him. A concept that is at the very heart of Tolkien's trilogy. Whether or not Jackson should have placed the story on a visual medium is not for anyone to decide. Whatever the case may be Jackson executes the film nearly flawlessly. Certainly the story seems a little more empty than the books, due simply to the fact that the visual author is much more limited in his time to tell his story than the literary author. So my advice is if you are unwilling to accept anything other than an unabridged account of Frodo's tale, read the book. Elsewise see this brilliantly crafted film.