The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 224
Fresh: 215 | Rotten: 9
The Two Towers balances spectacular action with emotional storytelling, leaving audiences both wholly satisfied and eager for the final chapter.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 0
The Two Towers balances spectacular action with emotional storytelling, leaving audiences both wholly satisfied and eager for the final chapter.
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Frodo and Samwise press on toward Mordor. Gollum insists on being the guide. Can anyone so corrupted by the ring be trusted? Can Frodo, increasingly under the sway of the ring, even trust himself? Meanwhile, Aragorn, drawing closer to his kingly destiny, rallies forces of good for the battles that must come. Director Peter Jackson delivers an amazing second movie that won 2 Academy Awards (R)* and earned 6 total nominations including Best Picture. The journey continues. So do the astonishing
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Cast
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Elijah Wood
Frodo Baggins -
Ian McKellen
Gandalf -
Liv Tyler
Arwen -
Viggo Mortensen
Aragorn -
Sean Astin
Samwise Gamgee -
Cate Blanchett
Galadriel -
John Rhys-Davies
Gimli, Treebeard -
Bernard Hill
Théoden, Théoden, Th?o... -
Christopher Lee
Saruman -
Billy Boyd
Pippin -
Dominic Monaghan
Merry -
Orlando Bloom
Legolas -
Hugo Weaving
Elrond -
Miranda Otto
Ã?owyn, Éowyn, ??owyn, ... -
David Wenham
Faramir -
Brad Dourif
Grima Wormtongue -
Andy Serkis
Gollum -
Karl Urban
Ã?omer, Éomer, ??omer, ... -
Craig Parker
Haldir -
Marton Csokas
Celeborn -
Sala Baker
Sauron -
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All Critics (224) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (234) | Rotten (9) | DVD (71)
More graphic in its violence and more fantastic in its imaginings than the first film.
In size and scale, Jackson has redefined the word 'epic' -- but his attention to the small things really gives this series its awesome stature.
Top CriticThis 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.
Less a sequel to The Fellowship Of The Ring than it is a seamless continuation, The Two Towers is another immersive marriage of stirring storytelling and stunning spectacle.
Marches along with considerably more assurance and smoothness than the desperately crammed Fellowship.
The movie doesn't deepen or expand the tale's themes as masterfully as The Empire Strikes Back added to Star Wars' mystique. But as a stirring story of unsullied heroism, it's a winner, and as an action epic, it features superb battle sequences.
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 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.
Audience Reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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- Treebeard: The Ents cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.
- Merry: How can that be your decision?
- Treebeard: This is not our war.
- Merry: But you're part of this world! Aren't you?
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- Gollum: My precious.
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- Merry: There won't be a shire, Pip.
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- Legolas: They're taking the hobbits to Isengard.
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- Samwise Gamgee: What we need is a few good taters.
- Gollum: What's taters, precious? What's taters eh?
- Samwise Gamgee: Po-tay-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
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- Théoden: May this be the hour when we draw swords together.
Discussion Forum
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| Why didn't they use the eagles to get to Mordor? Here is the answer. | 2 months ago | 1 |
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Foreign Titles
- Der Herr der Ringe - Die zwei Türme (DE)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (UK)
