The tension grows as the battle for Middle Earth draws ever
closer. Frodo and Sam continue to wend their way towards Mordor, unaware that
their guide, Gollum, is leading them astray and into fatal danger. Shortly
after being reunited, Gandalf takes Pippin to Minas Tirith to convince the
defeated Lord Denethor to call for Rohan’s aid in the upcoming war. And Aragorn
puts aside the ranger and becomes who he was born to be with Legolas, Gimli and
an army of cursed, dead soldiers by his side.
IT ALL ENDS HERE! Most probably
the most highly anticipated film of the year (when it was released obviously), The Return of the King is just EPIC! I
went and saw this in the cinemas with my family when it was released and we
deliberately waited for some time so we would avoid the crowds. When we finally
did go and see it for the first time, there
was a line waiting to get into the cinema! IT WENT ALONG THE MAIN WALL AND
AROUND THE CORNER! That’s how amazing and influential and celebrated this
trilogy was. Even for the Harry Potter
movies, we didn’t have to cue. And then when we were finally out of the cue and
in our seats watching it, we were amazed, stunned, dumfounded, spellbound! I
cried. In the middle of the cinema, I cried like a child. I had not cried so
hard since The Lion King when I was
little, not even a decade old!
The tension grows as the battle for Middle Earth
draws ever closer. Frodo and Sam continue to wend their way towards Mordor,
unaware that their guide, Gollum, is leading them astray and into fatal danger.
Shortly after being reunited, Gandalf takes Pippin to Minas Tirith to convince
the defeated Lord Denethor to call for Rohan’s aid in the upcoming war. And
Aragorn puts aside the ranger and becomes who he was born to be with Legolas,
Gimli and an army of cursed, dead soldiers by his side.
First, I wish to draw
more attention to the geniuses who worked in art design, set design, and
construction because their achievements cannot go unnoticed. MINAS TIRITH!
Minas Tirith was utterly spellbinding and then the work of the special effect
people during the penultimate battle, wow magic was created. The special
effects of the battle sequences were absolutely breathtaking and gut-busting. I
simply cannot describe in words the awesome
power that the sets and special effects hold in these movies. I just can’t.
This
is the film where the emotional stories and tensions really came into play and
we have to give special applause to Miranda Otto and Sean Astin: Sean Astin’s
performance during a very emotional scene early in the film was what reduced me
to tears in the cinema.
The stunts get even better and the lighter comedy that
crept into the script in The Two Towers
is back again with a vengeance, again manifesting itself in the friendship
between Legolas and Gimli. Not only does the light-hearted comedy creep into
the script to relieve some of the emotional tension, but there are also some hugely empowering war speeches: be sure
to pay rapt attention to Theoden’s war speech before charging on the army of
Mordor, it’s absolutely sensational!
Starring Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic
Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Rhys-Davies, Viggo Mortensen, Sir
Ian McKellen, John Noble, Bernard Hill, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Liv
Tyler, Miranda Otto, Andy Serkis, whose face we actually get to see at the
beginning of the film, Karl Urban, David Wenham, and Ian Holm, The Return of the King is a gargantuan
film epic that is filled with knockout special effects, amazing sets, dazzling
costumes, action, romance, comedy, war, drama, peril, and multiple endings,
seriously there are close to three endings before it actually says The End. It’s amazing, it’s
breathtaking, it’s spellbinding, it’s gargantuan; IT’S AN EPIC CINEMATIC
ACHIEVEMENT!
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