Lord of the Rings, The: Book II - The Ring Goes South

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9.0
Review by GeneralNerd — September 3, 2010 @ 1:42 am

I liked this part a bit more than part 1, and I really liked the changes you made to it.

Likes:
Again, improved pacing. The battles don’t take as long (when you’ve included any of the battle at all) so they slow the movie down less and everything moves at a good speed.

I liked that Legolas is a bit less of a showoff.

The beginning I liked. It made for a nice little prologue explaining what Gandalf was up to while we were following Frodo.

Dislikes:
Again, a bit too short. 89 minutes is feature length, but for something like this it feels like there should be more.

Cutting out Galadriel getting into Frodo’s head when they first meet was, in my opinion, a mistake. Cutting it out when they enter the forest was a good idea, though.

The conflict between Boromir and Aragorn should also have been left in. I know you were trying to get Aragorn closer to his book version, but frankly his book version was boring. The only thing he ever gets conflicted about in the book is which way to go after Gandalf falls, and Frodo resolves that for him by running away. Frankly, I always preferred the movie’s portrayal of a man unsure about his destiny. It makes him embracing his kingship at the end all the better.

But like I said I liked this a bit more than the first part, if only because there was more of it. I give it 9/10
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Review by mullholland665 — July 5, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

Really great, I enjoyed this as much as part 1.

The final 10 minutes of Part 2 feels absolutely right: no Uruk-Hai attack on the Fellowship. Ever since I first saw Jackson’s mostly wonderful “Fellowship Of The Ring” that film’s climax has always felt pretty forced and unexciting. This new cut confirms my view. The Urak attack didn’t belong there, no matter what the classic three-act structure of a movie might demand!

10/10.
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(Updated: September 16, 2012)
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8.0
Review by Ripplin — April 17, 2010 @ 8:29 pm

Continuing from the first one, this was flawless editing and the sound and video quality are excellent. The more compact story is nice and I’m looking forward to watching the rest. I’ll give this 8/10.
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Review by jelio — December 25, 2009 @ 8:01 am

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Review by brauventura1 — December 17, 2009 @ 12:41 am

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