My Return of the Kings Review-----Possible Spoilers

Return of the Kings. First of all, what stunning graphics. Truly incredible. The battle with the oliphaunts just plain rocked. Then the story...of course it was genius, because of Tolkien.....but still, Peter Jackson carried it out unbelievably. Without too many strange additions like Aragorn falling off the cliff in Two Towers. I was dissapointed about how little the character of Denethor was built up. It seemed as if they introduced him, showed him eat while his son was fighting, and then burned him. Not much development. But of course the dialogue rocked. I didn't notice any cheesy lines-at all. They even put the character's singing in their very well, flowed wonderfully. But then, they had the advantage of working off of Tolkien's Genius. I was dissapointed that there was less Elvish in this one than the others....even though this one was longer.

It was brilliant having the beginning be the story of Smeagol and Deagol and how Smeagol(Gollum) stole the ring and killed Deagol. Gollum was even creepier as he was turning into Gollum than he is as a final Gollum. Even if this beginning didn't seem to have a point except to explain one line further in the movie, it was done well.

When the are at Mt. Doom, they needed to have Gollum save them more like in the books. I was dissapointed that it was Frodo who pushed him off the edge. I liked J.R.R. Tolkien's idea of having Gollum be the hero...puts a nice edge on it.

It also had a terrific ending. Even if it should have ended 2-3 minutes earlier, it didn't include the Scouring of the Shire, which would have expanded the movie a good thirty minutes---too much after the climax.

So, Chuck's Movie Rating.....I would say an A.......could be A+ except for it didn't stick entirely to the original story and the lack of a developed Denethor. Otherwise it was sheer genius.