Posted: 17 Dec 2003, 19:24
An Inspired and Emotional Cinematic Masterpiece
Once every so often, there comes a movie that opens your eyes to the beauty of filmmaking. Such past movies as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have showed us that there are some graceful movies among the big budget yet less human movies that flood the theaters. Then, in the year 2001, came the first of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. It showed us the power that an emotional story has. Then, in 2002, The Two Towers showed us true action combined with character drawn drama. Now, the trilogy comes to an end with The Return of the King. ROTK takes what made the first two films so great and combined them to give us a movie going experience no movie most likely ever will surpass. As the story unfold, we fell the pain of our characters. We hope they win, but our hearts we feel that defeat was inevitable. And it was, for even with victory, each character loses something.
From great action sequences to tear jerking and heartbreaking drama, The Return of the King gives us everything a great movie should have, plus so much more. Not only is this the best in the trilogy, or the best of the year, The Return of the King is easily the single greatest movie ever made.
I give The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King * * * * out of * * * * (Four out of Four)
Once every so often, there comes a movie that opens your eyes to the beauty of filmmaking. Such past movies as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have showed us that there are some graceful movies among the big budget yet less human movies that flood the theaters. Then, in the year 2001, came the first of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. It showed us the power that an emotional story has. Then, in 2002, The Two Towers showed us true action combined with character drawn drama. Now, the trilogy comes to an end with The Return of the King. ROTK takes what made the first two films so great and combined them to give us a movie going experience no movie most likely ever will surpass. As the story unfold, we fell the pain of our characters. We hope they win, but our hearts we feel that defeat was inevitable. And it was, for even with victory, each character loses something.
From great action sequences to tear jerking and heartbreaking drama, The Return of the King gives us everything a great movie should have, plus so much more. Not only is this the best in the trilogy, or the best of the year, The Return of the King is easily the single greatest movie ever made.
I give The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King * * * * out of * * * * (Four out of Four)