8/10
2002
A Peter Jackson Film
Protagonist(s): Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Hugo Weaving
Antagonist(s): Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis
Run-time: 2 hour 59 minutes
With the Fellowship dissolved into three groups and with the death of Boromir (Sean Bean) and Gandalf (Ian McKellen), each group forges on with the quests which they adopted when things went wrong.
As with the previous film, there are several things which have been omitted or shuffled. I will not bother to list them all, but if you watch this film with an enthusiast of the books prepare for detailed analysis of the differences and why the books were better.
The effects are excellent. The acting talent is good. The action scenes are good. The camera angles are spectacular.
I recommend this film only if you saw the previous film, else it will make very little sense.
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