The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

"The Two Towers" is another excellent installment in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee continue their journey to Mordor in order to destroy the One Ring with the creature, Gollum, as their guide despite Gollum's obsession with getting `his precious' back. Pippin and Merry manage to escape the Uruk hai into the Fangorn Forest and their own adventure with the Ents. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas try to save the kingdom of Rohan from imminent destruction from Saruman's Uruk-Hai. Gandalf is reincarnated as a white wizard and returns to fulfill his task of aiding the free people against Sauron's forces. The movie also features amazing special effects with Gollum, dramatic political tension in Rohan, and fantastic moments with the Ents. There's also beautiful moments between Aragorn and Arwen. The costumes, weapons, armor, props and movie sets are very well crafted. The landscapes and scenery of New Zealand are beautiful. Treebeard and the Ents are very well done in CGI. The ents are curiously wise and well spoken. The CGI incarnation of Gollum/Smeagol was incredibly emotive and powerful as it protrays Gollum as profoundly disturbing, amusing and almost lovable all at the same time. Hence, Gollum is still a CGI masterpiece. The special effects for the ents, the mumakil, the wargs, Sauron's eye and the fellbeast are very incredible. The filming locations and the movie sets for the Kingdom of Rohan look gorgeous. The Rohirrim are a sight to behold and do conjure images of the lost Anglo-Saxons. The acting is superb with an amazing cast. Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf and Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman are flawless. Sean Astin was born for the role as Samwise Gamgee and portrays Sam's character perfectly. Andy Serkis gave an astonishing performance as Gollum. Elijah Wood Dominic Monaghan as Merry and Billy Boyd as Pippin still make for a delightful duo. Viggo Mortensen's performance as Aragorn is visceral and sensitive with physical dexterity, along with being an empathic, warmer and fundamentally human in presence and charisma. Orlando Bloom still pulls of as Legolas very well. John Rhys-Davies is still brilliant and hilarious as Gimli. Bernard Hill gives a very perfect performance as King Theoden. Miranda Otto as Eowyn and Karl Urban as Eomer were excellent. David Wenham was a very good choice for the role as Faramir. Brad Douris gives a superb performance as Grima Wormtongue. The Battle of Helm's Deep is still one of the best movie battle scenes in cinema history. The scene where Haldir (Craig Parker) arrives with an army of Galadhirm elven warrirors at Helm's Deep to aid the men of Rohan is still one of highlights of The Two Towers movie. The action and fighting scenes at Helm's deep is epic and perfectly executed. The choreography of the battle, the visual effects, the pacing, acting, cinematography, and music, all work together in perfection to achieve grand filmmaking. The downfall of Frodo as the ring slowly takes hold of him is very well done. The battles of Helms Deep and Isengard are truly breathtaking. The ents marching off to war and tearing down Isengard is still a very breathtaking and powerful moment. The scene where Gandalf and Eomer arrive with an army of Rohirrim, charging down a hill at the Uruk hai and turning the tide of battle at Helm's Deep is astonishing. Samwise Gamgee's "some good things in the world worth fighting for" speech to Frodo is very enlightening and provides positive motivation. Howard Shore is musical genius in composing beautiful songs and music scores that captures the magic and the essence of Middle Earth. The theme song for the kingdom of Rohan is very splendid. "Gollum's Song" by Emilíana Torrini is a haunting beautiful and suspenseful song that plays at the movie credits. Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers" is one wonderful interpretation of the epic story. A spectacular adventure action experience.

As someone who did not read the books and came to watch the movie because it's a pop icon... I barely understood the first movie with subtitles on but I could barely catch up with the second one with the lack of it. With all the terminologies that is only applicable to this movie it's really hard to catch up of you don't understand what they are talking about... So many unnecessary scenes that was there for the progression of the story...

This story is the best story ever and there's so many subliminal messages to it that u have to watch it at least 5 to get the full picture. Every time i watched it i learned something again. There's so much meaning to the story from everyday life and from the world and what has came to pass. I honestly think he had a point to make with this story and he made it pretty clear Not saying this is what it is but the ring of power comes danm near close to representing sin and no one could destroy it on there own