The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Critic Reviews

The miracle is that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is better: tighter, smarter, funnier.Read the full review

A rousing adventure, a skillful marriage of special effects and computer animation, and it contains sequences of breathtaking beauty. It also gives us, in a character named the Gollum, one of the most engaging and convincing CGI creatures I've seen.Read the full review

What it comes down to is superbly staged battle scenes and moral alliances forged in earnest yet purged of the wit and dynamic, bristly ego that define true on-screen personality.Read the full review

If the second film never reaches the highs of the first -- we have met the players before and there are no new worlds of wonder -- it nonetheless invests moviegoing with a sense of adventure.Read the full review

Like its predecessor, The Two Towers is a great motion picture, and not to be missed by anyone who appreciates fantasy adventure.Read the full review

Spectacular in every sense of the word, even if you don' t know an Orc from a Uruk-Hai.Read the full review

An outstanding effort that maintains the integrity and purpose that distinguished "The Fellowship of the Ring."Read the full review

A glorious, visceral mess -- The film is, by most criteria, an ungainly piece of storytelling. Yet it sweeps you up and hurtles you along like water from an exploded dike.Read the full review

Never has a film so strongly been a product of a director's respect for its source. Mr. Jackson uses all his talents in the service of that reverence, creating a rare perfect mating of filmmaker and material.Read the full review