The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is a pure definition of how near-perfect films can be produced, and while it doesn't impress as much as the first flick, "The Two Towers" still shows the hard effort the Middle-Earth team have put into creating a realistic fantasy world. "Two Towers" picks up where "Fellowship of the Ring" left off: Frodo and Sam have split from the Fellowship to covertly take the One Ring to Mordor while a war for Middle-Earth begins, and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are following the trail of Pippin and Merry, facing several dozen Orcs along the way and discovering a way to buy time for the travelling Hobbits. Just minutes in, we get the major revelation of "Two Towers" in the form of Gollum, a creature who has been turned insane by the raw power of the Ring, and who- portrayed by Andy Serkis- is brilliantly animated to the point where you believe he is a real-life being. That realism carries through to most of the film's major set-pieces (and even simple scenes involving Frodo, Sam and Gollum), but especially with the extended cut (yet also on its own) "The Two Towers" starts to drag come the half-way point, and battle sequences seem to take forever to play out. If it weren't for the superb acting, this shortcoming might make this flick the weakest link by a mile in the trilogy, but simply because of the effort put in by Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom and co "The Two Towers" is only the series' worst instalment by a small margin. Next week, witness "The Return Of The King"...
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