Tuesday, January 07, 2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Writing about Fellowship of the Ring, I said its main fault lies in that its feels more like a prelude to something epic than an epic in itself. Well, I was right -- this film is fucking EPIC. Probably the single greatest Hollywood-style entertainment in the last three or four years, with a good performance from an actor I'd previously written off as bland (Viggo Mortensen) and a great performance from a bundle of pixels that bears a vague resemblence to Willem Dafoe and Steve Buscemi. (I don't know if that's a testament to the quality of the CG work or just how odd Dafoe and Buscemi look.) Peter Jackson announces once and for all his arrival into the canon of major world directors with his stellar and fluid work -- the Battle of Helm's Deep is probably the single most exciting stretch of cinema I saw last year. Breathtaking.

Grade: A

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