The trilogy is done, and it is everything it was expected to be.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings
to an end the fabulous trilogy by Peter Jackson, assuring itself of a Best Picture nomination and hopefully a win this time around.
The movie concludes the journey of Frodo and Sam, as they edge towards Mt. Doom (never ever appearing to get closer to it) with their devious guide Gollum, and of Gandalf, Legolas and Gimli as they unite between the returning king Aragon to fight one last battle that will decide the fate of Middle-Earth. Yes, it sounds quite boring, doesn''t it?
Along with the story, The Return of the King has all of the positives of the previous film, The Two Towers, while having less of the negatives, such as somewhat slow stretches, choppy editing in one or few places, and so forth. The Two Towers was about as good as it could be considering that it was a centerpiece in a story; The Return of the King is everything that a finale should be. So, in essence, it is the opposite of what is The Matrix Revolutions. The switches between Frodo''s storyline and Aragon''s storyline are much cleaner this time around, and compliment each other more in terms of action, suspense and dialogue. Instead of just jumping from one character storyline to the next, this time Jackson did a much better job at leading into scenes with dialogue and related action.