In order to coincide with the upcoming animated movie War of the Rohirrim, I'm gonna review this on the first month of 2024.
Frodo and Sam along with Gollum continue their journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring of Power created by Sauron. Meanwhile, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, having won the battle of Helm's Deep, continue their strategic ways for their final battle against Mordor.
Return of the King is a 3rd installment that is flawless. It does a superb job keeping the spirit of the source material intact while providing strong emotion and pathos. Plus it provided some depth to Gollum (AKA Smeagol, the hobbit who was driven mad by the power of the ring) while continuing the character arcs for the hobbits (Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin) along with Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn, Eowyn, Arwen, and Theoden. Even Denethor was given some much needed depth too especially when you understand his motives.
The cinematography continues to be beautiful as it gives an expansive scope of Mordor and Gondor, the directing/editing is still superb, and the music score from Howard Shore is just as epic as the music from the previous two which retains the themes while the new themes involving this conclusion resonate.
And of course, the acting is still great. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill, Liv Tyler, John Noble, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, and Hugo Weaving all did superb jobs with their respective roles which made me glad this movie won an Academy Award back in 2003.
Overall, Return of the King is an epic conclusion to the trilogy that still holds up. Thumbs up from me.
Frodo and Sam along with Gollum continue their journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring of Power created by Sauron. Meanwhile, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, having won the battle of Helm's Deep, continue their strategic ways for their final battle against Mordor.
Return of the King is a 3rd installment that is flawless. It does a superb job keeping the spirit of the source material intact while providing strong emotion and pathos. Plus it provided some depth to Gollum (AKA Smeagol, the hobbit who was driven mad by the power of the ring) while continuing the character arcs for the hobbits (Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin) along with Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn, Eowyn, Arwen, and Theoden. Even Denethor was given some much needed depth too especially when you understand his motives.
The cinematography continues to be beautiful as it gives an expansive scope of Mordor and Gondor, the directing/editing is still superb, and the music score from Howard Shore is just as epic as the music from the previous two which retains the themes while the new themes involving this conclusion resonate.
And of course, the acting is still great. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill, Liv Tyler, John Noble, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, and Hugo Weaving all did superb jobs with their respective roles which made me glad this movie won an Academy Award back in 2003.
Overall, Return of the King is an epic conclusion to the trilogy that still holds up. Thumbs up from me.