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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 230
Fresh: 216
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Consensus: A moving and satisfying conclusion to a great trilogy.
Theatrical Release: Dec 17, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $376,958,965
Synopsis: THE RETURN OF THE KING, the third and final film in Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, finds Middle-earth on the cusp of great change. Weary hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) venture further into the dark realm of... [More]
Starring: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin
Director: Peter Jackson
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Reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top Critic
A truly cinematic experience that you'll find practically impossible to forget and a more than fitting end to one of the greatest film franchises ever made.
04/02/05
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01/07/04
Top Critic A lot of it is just hacking and slashing on a mammoth scale, which is still just hacking and slashing.
08/13/07
An absolutely absorbing finale which establishes the trilogy as perhaps the best mythic fable ever brought to the big screen.
04/22/07
Standing out amid an excellent cast is Elijah Wood, stymied by tweeness in the earlier films but here convincingly developing the character of Frodo as the embodiment of valor and self-sacrifice.
02/06/07
No flabber has been left ungasted by Mr Jackson's mighty battle sequences, nor no gob unsmacked.
01/27/07
Top Critic If this wasn't quite the best movie of 2003, it was definitely the most fun to be had at the movies all year
08/27/06
Some story strands are crudely abbreviated; others fail to develop elements that were already well-established.
02/09/06
Jackson finishes the epic with a flourish that leaves all other big screen fantasies thoroughly humbled.
01/15/05
An incurable film until such time as Peter Jackson is moved to shorten its deadening coda
01/07/05
He (Peter Jackson) has succeeded in topping the series for the grandest of finales.
10/14/04
Aucun texte ne pourra jamais transmettre efficacement en mots la qualité de cette œuvre.
10/07/04
Peter Jackson and his team pull through once again and turn in the best film in a terrific trilogy.
07/20/04
...battles are massive and special effects are astonishing, yet in the last analysis the story boils down to the very intimate portraits of a very small band of individuals.
06/06/04
If every film were this spectacular theaters and movie studios could raise ticket prices by $5 and I wouldn’t feel cheated.
06/03/04
Truly awe-inspiring. If it takes a while to get going, and seems to overstay its welcome with an overlong ending, I forgive it.
05/04/04
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