The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003) – Movie Review

Director: Peter Jackson

Screenwriters: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

Based on the Book by: J.R.R. Tolkien

Producer: Barrie Osborne

Studio: New Line 

Production Companies: WingNut

Top Billed Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortenson, Andy Serkis, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Cate Blanchette, Bernard Hill, David Wenham, Miranda Otto, Karl Urban, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving, John Rhys-Davis, Orlando Bloom, John Noble, Bret McKenzie, Ian Holm, Martin Csokas, Sean Bean, Christopher Lee

LOGLINE: As Frodo, Sam and there ever more unstable Gollum approach Mount Doom, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden and others must fight to save Gondor from an army of Orcs and beasts and Nazgul.

VIEWING CIRCUMSTANCES: Originally on opening day with a sold out cinema at 9am with my mum, dad, brother and girlfriend (now wife), after a long line up to ensure god seats. Since then many times on DVD at home and at friends. (I once even watched every single frame of extra footage and commentary for all three of the special edition films, which adds up to well over 100 hours, in just under 2 weeks, whilst I was studying for uni exams)

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Epic Climax to the greatest story ever told made into the greatest film series ever made.

STORY: Such scope and such detail. Such a great film! And for those that don't like the multiple endings, tough titties! It is aloud at least three and is it is ending three films.

PRODUCTION: Peter Jackson took his already breakthrough techniques to another leven of quality and quantity with this installment.

PERFORMANCE: All brilliant, business as usual on the LOTR set.

OVERALL: I watch FOTR more than ROTK which I watch more than TTT, but really the best way to watch them is to watch the extended editions back to back or at least on sequential nights.

MEETSLINE: Lord of the Rings meets Awesomeness

FAVOURITE QUOTES:
"My lords, you bow to noone"


"I am no man"


"Share the load"


"My Precious"

RECOMMENDED ACCOMPANIMENT: Cherry tomatoes!

LINKS: 

Check out my review of LOTR FOTR here:
http://reviewflix.blogspot.com/2011/09/lord-of-rings-fellowship-of-ring.html

Check out my review of LOTR TTT here:
http://reviewflix.blogspot.com/2011/09/lord-of-rings-two-towers.html

Check out my deconstruction of LOTR FOTR here:
http://filmdeconstructions.blogspot.com/2011/09/lord-of-rings-fellowship-of-ring.html

RATING:

5 out of 5 reels of film.

Movie Review by A.B. McBlogsmith the Backwards Cap Film Reviewer

(C) Review Flix 2011