Lord Of The Rings, The - The Two Towers Reviews

love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.........

i love this film. just as good as the fellowship. great characters, locations and helms deep was AMAZING. but with that book, how could you go wrong?

Film of the year...make that decade!

I love this film. But then I loved the 'Fellowship' last year as well. If you enjoyed the first film then you will love this one becuase it has more action, more plot, more character development and Gollum! Gollum is fantastic, and as are all the characters, very true to Tolkien's trilogy. If you have seen the first film you must watch this and if you haven't seen the first film you don't know what you're missing but I wouldn't suggest watching this unless you have seen the 1st part as that sets the scene and introduces the characters. Everything about it is great, the music is moving and haunting, the effects are gob smacking, the acting is top notch and put it all together and it creates an amazing film. Here's waiting for the final episode.

pretentious twaddle

Nobody could deny the technical skill, artistry even, that went into the film. But what for? What makes films worth watching is the plot, characters and dialogue. I liked the books, didn't love them, but certainly had no trouble getting through. In the film, the characters have become wooden through the awful dialogue and stupid too. How many seconds was it after the Back Gates of Morrrdorrrrr opened that Frodo said ' Look! The Gates! They Are Opening' ? In this film no one speaks, they Pronounce, and many pronouncements are backed with portentious music. I dozed off after the first hour.

Movie of the year!

This movie is the follow up to the first Lord of the Rings and once again this movie blows you away. Full of great action scenes and special effects you'll enjoy every minute from start to finish.

Switch Off Your Brain & Enjoy the Ride

This film leaves you with the feeling of a take away meal - looks good but leaves you unsatisfied. The film is shot beautifully and the action scenes are impressive but behind the glitz you are left feeling this phenomenen is a triumph of style over substance.

The plot is almost non existent and the characters one dimensional. There's also a feeling that things have been juggled around but you're effectively watching the Fellowship again.

For all that it's an enjoyable light hearted romp and I look forward to seeing the final part of the triology.

Mammoth production - bit long

I really wanted to see this film after the epic that was the first LOTR film. I had great expectations for Two Towers. However, these were not really met. The film was over-long and in spite of spectacular settings and effects was quite difficult at times to follow. I could not see the point of some of the characters or events and the relation of some of these to the story (and book) was not always clear. Nevertheless, the amazing New Zealand scenery and incredible special effects (and superb battle sequence) made the film worth seeing. Buy in a pizza or two, put a 6 pack by the chair and prepare for a long night!!

Must watch.....MUST BUY!

This is a must see movie along with parts one and three, how you can watch part one the fellowship without seeing this is beyond me. From the minute you are immersed in the world of Bilbo Baggins and co. it's sheer joy and escapism. The battle scenes are breathtaking without being too gory and the fantasy value is worth buying alone, so you can go back again and again. A real must buy for the disconcerning adventurer.

I prefer the book (in English I've read it 23 times, German a mere 5. French:grotesque!) To the film: enthralling, could have had an intermission for the younger kids. Loved Gollum, and the actors seemed to knit together well, considering this is sheep country, they ought to!

The scenery too was breath-taking, and always changing.

The epic fight scene was horrendous and tremendous: wargs and all. Even Saruman's "creations" were brilliantly done and blood-chilling. How about the plot? Well, they're still on their way with many unknown helpers to the lair of the Dark Lord, the eternal, unsleeping Eye of SAURON.

Where will it all end up? Another multi-billion $-gross film to add to the other three books (i.e. two films) I can't wait to see it at home on my set. I ordered the DVD weeks ago.

If this epic isn't an all-round 5*****, I'll eat Golum's toe-nail clipppings!

Enjoy!

24 Carat Rings almost outshine Star Wars !

Forget the pretender to the throne for the greatest ever trilogy of films, I mean the Matrix (Even Superman 3 was better that Revolutions), Lord of the Rings is the prince regent. Second only to the original Star Wars trilogy.

I know, different styles, backdrops and stories. But, no ! Good against evil and heroes facing impossible odds.

The battle sequences in this one, especially the rousing finale, are excellently executed and bookend excellent charactarisation.

As with Star Wars, the pacing is excellent (only dragging during the tree people sequences) as is the score and most of the acting.

An excellent film that deserves the acolades given to it and it didn't need three different endings/ epilogues like those tacked onto the Return of the King.

Spectacle!

Good scenery, once again - Jackson has done an unbelievably good job of bringing Tolkien's Middle-Earth to the screen. Probably has to be seen on the big screen to be appreciated in all its glory. Gollum is the perfect fusion of great acting and great special effects that George Lucas never managed - the film is worth seeing for him alone.

The criticisms levelled at the film are fair, though. It is too long, if you don't like battle scenes. The changes made to the original story are irritating; unnecessary sequences of Aragorn wandering alone dreaming of Arwen are dull and do not add anything to the story. The biggest gripe, however is the way it ends - the Two Towers book has a brilliant cliffhanger ending which has been totally abandoned in favour of ending with Frodo and Sam wandering once again.

Altogether, however, the strengths outweigh the weaknesses: it is a superb spectacle of a film and well worth seeing.