The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
"The supreme film adventure of our time." -Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
The Fellowship has broken, but the quest to destroy the One Ring continues. Frodo and Sam must entrust their lives to Gollum if they are to find their way to Mordor. As Saruman's army approaches, the surviving members of the Fellowhip, along with people and creatures from Middle-earth, prepare for battle. The War of the Ring has begun. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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Excellent second chapter in the trilogy. - estefan
The Fellowship of the Rings introduced this world, while The Two Towers has the difficult task of breaking the characters up and still making the story cohesive and boy, does it deliver. Through its fast-moving three hours, Peter Jackson carefully divides the multiple stories in a cohesive whole with each one given the right time to develop and expand on its characters. The Frodo/Sam/Gollum triangle shows the power of the ring on the young hobbit and his connection to the one most affected by it. The relationship between these three is so well-explored and in particular is Frodo grappling with the ring's power. There's an odd sort of kinship with Gollum that shows how more vulnerable he is becoming. Unbeknowst to him, he is becoming more and more like his sickly guide. Not to mention, every film in the trilogy has its MVP and Andy Serkis is definitely the one in The Two Towers.
The Battle at Helm's Deep is exciting and never misses a beat and never growing dull and tiresome. Aragorn is still the incredibly awesome action hero we saw in Fellowship, but is again still dealing with his past. It ties in nicely with the theme of war and uniting that this chapter is about. With this massive force threatening to destroy the world, it takes man and elf to unite and save the day. The importance of coming together to stop a single evil force was obviously written by JRR Tolkien to show the nations uniting help stop the those seeking to destroy the world in the Second World War. However, it could easily be applied to any war and Jackson is nicely subtle in delivering that message, both at Helm's Deep and in the new-found friendship between Merry and Pippin and Treebeard. Overall, this delivers the right level of strong fantasy, timeless characters, strong action and technical wizardry that have made The Lord of the Rings films so special.You know it is good - icedevilz2
I have always been surprised with how well they dealt with the second volumn. It is not really your traditional movie in structure. The way they have blended books three and four together and the choices in structure they made did two things: it made for a really good conclusion to the film and it made some significant alterations to the story. I find the changes made to Faramir the least convincing (in this film), but the Elven scenes are not too bad (and bring some much needed female screen time). The oddest thing is the geographical oddity of Frodo's movements at the end of the movie. It's like they ignored the location of Henneth Annûn. The oddest thing for me was the Galadriel voice over bit - I forget sometimes they had to explain things to people who had not read the books. Anyways, all this aside, this movie just continues the awesomeness from the first film into the third. The extended edition is much better, I have to say though. You really should marathon these three films for best effect.The saga continues - AandW
If you like the first one then you'll like this one too. Same great acting, direction, production, plot, etc. Though this one is basically just a transition to the final chapter. It is mostly just wandering around and fighting. It's great character development and great action.
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Excellent second chapter in the trilogy. - estefan
The Fellowship of the Rings introduced this world, while The Two Towers has the difficult task of breaking the characters up and still making the story cohesive and boy, does it deliver. Through its fast-moving three hours, Peter Jackson carefully divides ...You know it is good - icedevilz2
I have always been surprised with how well they dealt with the second volumn. It is not really your traditional movie in structure. The way they have blended books three and four together and the choices in structure they made did two things: it made for a ...The saga continues - AandW
If you like the first one then you'll like this one too. Same great acting, direction, production, plot, etc. Though this one is basically just a transition to the final chapter. It is mostly just wandering around and fighting. It's great character development ...