Searching...
The tale continues with the Fellowship broken and three groups heading their different ways. Frodo and Sam carry on for Mordor and acquire along the way a travelling companion by the name of Gollum who promises to help them reach the Mountain of Doom. Elsewhere Merry and Pippin's attempt to escape the Uruk Hai leads them to enter Fangorn Forest where they encounter Treebeard, a walking, talking tree shepherd. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli reach Rohan to discover that King Theoden has been taken over by Saruman, All the residents of Rohan are ordered to go to Helm's Deep where a massive battle against the Uruk Hai ensues...
...In some respects a more impressive film than its well-received predecessor. Marked by nonstop conflict that Akira Kurosawa would have envied...
...Jackson keeps the action percolating. The effects astonish...
...The visuals are a real treat; everyone and everything -- particularly the landscape -- looks and feels just right...
...Peter Jackson has pulled out all the stops....Jackson and his team of homegrown artisans have created an exciting form of digital epic filmmaking...
...THE LORD OF THE RINGS so far stands among the best adaptations of a major work of fantasy ever managed by the cinema...
...The director's great strength is the confidence with which he translates Tolkien's vision into visual imagery...
...A rare perfect mating of filmmaker and material....[A] beautifully considered epic....The grandeur is astonishing...
...Visually dazzling....The RINGS movies are among the most breathtaking achievements in recent cinematic history...
...THE TWO TOWERS conjures an illusion of the gravity that you want from an emotionally charged storybook epic...