Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) by Gabriel O — 28 Feb 2013

More crafted than the previous one, darker, with a more complex structure, more complicated from the environmental an technical point of view, The Two Towers continues the premise of the first part of the saga, and enlarges its dimension to reach a betterly warlike atmosphere and a gloomy aura that never cuts the emotional and masterful style of Peter Jackson's lucid and wonderful perfectionism.

This film doesn't stay at just keeping the tension and the cinematic brilliantness from the previous film, but it simply denses and polishes it. This one was the hardest to adapt, indeed, because it has too many plots, it has a complex situation, a chaotic and complicated structure, and too many details to be exposed.

It was also so hard to express what this story should mean, and to make it both dazzling and thougtfull. Again, Jackson's team made it. Concerning, dramatic, but also evocative and inspiring. This film focuses more on the purely pictorial aspect, on cinematography and score, edition and careness of the environmental atmosphere.

Pure Art, in the classical sense. But probably, the greatest things of this film are two: the power of its narrative pulse, and also the introduction of one of the best supporting characters ever: Gollum, both in the psychological and interpretative way, as well as in the digital and creative sense.

Every single instant of this classic film, than can be hardly (when not just impossibly) criticized, because of its practical absence of mistakes, is full of the most highly inspired and exquisite artistic taste and sense of heartfulness and beauty.

The Greatest Story Ever Told, part II.