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More graphic in its violence and more fantastic in its imaginings than the first film.
This second installment in the trilogy ends with Gandalf intoning that the battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin. I'm pumped.
A brilliantly conceived adventure that has the capacity to take your breath away.
What's remarkable is how immediately, after a full year, The Two Towers seizes your attention, and how urgently it holds you through three seamless, action-packed hours.
A thrilling work of film craft.
Spectacular in every sense of the word, even if you don' t know an Orc from a Uruk-Hai.
The Two Towers, then, is the greatest blockbuster ever made without either a beginning or an end, a feisty beast with a hollow ring in its bones.
If you're not already on board, you scrabble around as best you can, and this means hard work, which is something rare -- and yes, exhilarating -- in a modern blockbuster.
An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line Home Video's stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson's exhilarating and exhausting epic.
The second chapter of Peter Jackson's seminal epic disffers from the first in narrative and tone, there are more battle scenes and the mood is darker.
Andy Serkis's work in creating Gollum deserved an honorary Academy Award. His gestures and voice, not computer software, make Gollum so memorable as he wrestles with his inner homicidal maniac. A soaring, searing tale of wonderment.
Outstanding, but has very violent battle scenes.
...a wonderfully entertaining piece of filmmaking, filled with as much spectacle and wonder as any motion picture I've seen. (Blu-ray Extended Edition set)
Gollum and the battles are a triumph of integrated art and technology, and the battles a masterstroke of sheer logistics. (Extended Edition)
To say that this is a great movie would be an understatement.
Spectacular entertainment.
Glorious escapism that will not make you feel dirty the morning after.
The battle is one of the best of its kind in film history, a symphony of bloodlust and hopes dashed and restored.
Yes, Peter Jackson demands nine hours of your time. But I can't think of a director more deserving.
If you don't already own the (Extended Edition) DVDs, this Limited Edition comes highly recommended.
In size and scale, Jackson has redefined the word 'epic' -- but his attention to the small things really gives this series its awesome stature.
And the Masterpiece continues.
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