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The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King
2003
As Sauron gathers his forces, the kingdom of Gondor is in need of its king, Aragorn. Gandalf sets off to Minas Tirith to try and rally the troops of Gondor, while King Theoden of Rohan brings his forces to help keep Sauron distracted from the movements of the ring bearer. Meanwhile Frodo, accompanied by his friend Samwise .. Read more
| Starring | Elijah Wood, Miranda Otto, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen |
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| Director | Peter Jackson |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King
As Sauron gathers his forces, the kingdom of Gondor is in need of its king, Aragorn. Gandalf sets off to Minas Tirith to try and rally the troops of Gondor, while King Theoden of Rohan brings his forces to help keep Sauron distracted from the movements of the ring bearer. Meanwhile Frodo, accompanied by his friend Samwise Gamgee and the former ring bearer Golem, continues his journey to cast the One Ring into Mount Doom. However Golem intends to lead them not to their destination but into the lair of Shelob.
| Starring | Elijah Wood, Miranda Otto, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Karl Urban |
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| Director | Peter Jackson |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 12 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Big Adventures, 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 21 May 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Peter Jackson deservedly won the best director Oscar for this powerful and enchanting concluding episode to his massively ambitious adaptation of JRR Tolkien's trilogy. It also became the first fantasy film to receive the best picture Oscar and won awards in all the categories it was nominated for, equalling the record haul of 11 set by Ben-Hur and Titanic. One staggeringly beautiful sight follows another as the brilliant ensemble cast brings Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece to life, and Jackson mixes man, myth and magic together with astonishing scope and intoxicating invention. The action picks up from The Two Towers with Frodo crawling to Mount Doom to finally destroy the ring, while Aragorn enlists an army of the dead to help Gandalf defend the besieged city of Minas Tirith from the Witch-king and his armies. Jackson's loyalty to Tolkien's over-stuffed text means certain characters get little screen time and the ending does drag on with its series of teary farewells. But these are minor gripes considering his towering achievement in creating a timeless, literate and passionate masterpiece that will live for ever. The Minas Tirith battle sequence in particular will surely go down as one of the greatest in cinema history.
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Magnificent bravura epic that also works on an individual level: each member of the Fellowship has to struggle to find within himself the strength to continue in what seems to be a lost cause. The final battle ranks with the most thrilling and brilliant s
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21 out of 28 people found this review helpful
Easily, the best film of the last 10 years!
Without question, this is Peter Jacksons penultimate triumph in film-making! No matter what film he makes in the future, everything else will compared to this. From the opening scenes, to the final closing moments as we see Bilbo, Frodo and Co. sail west with the elves, you are completely drawn in, and believe that elves and wizards and orcs et al, are as near to real as they can be!
This film will be the new generations Star Wars! The characters are well formed and true to the book, with a few noteworthy deletions left out of the film due to time constraints, the scenery and cinematography is unparallelled to this reviewer. Of course the breakaway shining star of this movie and the 2nd instalment is easily Gollum. A first in film-making history, a CGI character that you forget is CGI.
Short of continuously rambling on and singing it’s praises, I suggest you watch this movie with the same open mouthed awe and wonder as I did. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Good - but the books are still better
The huge budget, large cast and bountiful special effects are visible again throughout this final installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This film is truer to the original Tolkien books than the previous two in that it misses only those parts that just would not translate to film and adds nothing of any major consequence.
Whilst very impressive in places the battle scenes are still very obviously computer generated. I think it would have been more powerful to see a darker, grittier hack fest rather than scenes which in places just bordered on plain silly (see Legolas vs. Oliphaunts). Though I suspect much of what went into the battle scenes was dictated by Peter Jackson wanting to retain only a 12A rating rather than the more mature 15 or 18 certificates. I would also take issue with the depiction of the Nazgul. Unfortunately film is not the best medium to use when describing a being whose ultimate power is that of inciting pure terror but throughout the trilogy the Nine seem to have been rather left behind whilst the large red eye allegory seems to have been really pushed home. Much to my own bemusement...
Anyway, still a good film. Score is just right, battle scenes are pretty impressive and Aragorn is pretty kingly. If I have one beef its that it isn’t exactly how I had it in my head. But then it never would have been……. -
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