The Fellowship of the Ring, 'The Two Towers' takes after the proceeding with mission of Frodo and the Fellowship to annihilate the One Ring. Frodo and Sam find they are being trailed by the strange Gollum. Aragorn, the Elf bowman Legolas and Gimli the Dwarf experience the blockaded Rohan kingdom, whose once incredible King Theoden has fallen under Saruman's fatal spell.
When Gandalf arrives with reinforcements, descending a near-vertical slope using horses where you or I would use snowboards, the spirit of triumphant rampage is something rarely glimpsed since the days of Olivier and Henry V.
It's a thrilling three-hour epic that flies at a gallop, boasts the most impressive computer graphics yet created, and succeeds smashingly as grownup drama and kid-captivating fantasy.
