No flabber has been left ungasted by Mr Jackson's mighty battle sequences, nor no gob unsmacked.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 230 Fresh: 216 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Consensus:
A moving and satisfying conclusion to a great trilogy.
Runtime: 4 hrs 10 mins
Synopsis: THE RETURN OF THE KING, the third and final film in Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, finds Middle-earth on the cusp of great change. Weary hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) venture further into the dark realm of Mordor, guided by the increasingly desperate Gollum... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd
Director: Peter Jackson
Screenwriter: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Composer: Howard Shore
Screenwriter: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Composer: Howard Shore
Reviews
Top Critic
Some story strands are crudely abbreviated; others fail to develop elements that were already well-established.
02/09/06
Top Critic
Peter Jackson and his team pull through once again and turn in the best film in a terrific trilogy.
07/20/04
Top Critic
Ultimately this journey has been about the endgame, and now that we're here, we get a shattering sense of all that is at stake.
01/04/04
Majestic, moving and immense, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is about as awesome as cinema gets.
12/15/03
Top Critic
A very fine achievement, moving, involving and, to many people, even inspiring.
12/15/03
For three hours and 20 minutes, Jackson has made fantasy become reality.
12/13/03
Top Critic
The third part of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy delivers everything we have been led to expect: stunning battle sequences, glorious scenery, jaw-dropping special effects and wonderful performances.
12/12/03
So impeccably and artfully done that we can hardly breathe, immobilised by emotion, suspense, the sheer spectacle, the intimate drama.
12/12/03
You could open an entire can of hyperbole over this film, and still run short of adjectives to praise its majesty.
05/24/03
Top Critic
A lot of it is just hacking and slashing on a mammoth scale, which is still just hacking and slashing.
08/13/07
An absolutely absorbing finale which establishes the trilogy as perhaps the best mythic fable ever brought to the big screen.
04/22/07
Standing out amid an excellent cast is Elijah Wood, stymied by tweeness in the earlier films but here convincingly developing the character of Frodo as the embodiment of valor and self-sacrifice.
02/06/07
If this wasn't quite the best movie of 2003, it was definitely the most fun to be had at the movies all year
08/27/06
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