The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers 4K 2002 EXTENDED Ultra HD 2160p

Frodo Baggins' epic campaign to destroy the Ring of Power, which holds the power of the Black Lord Sauron, continues. The Fellowship of the Ring fell apart, and while Frodo and Sam, with the help of an unexpected and dangerous ally, make their way to Mordor, their friends, having gone through many dangers and adventures, enter into a decisive battle with the traitorous magician Saruman ...

The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers 4K Review
You think that millions of people in all parts of the world will watch the sequel to "The Lord of the Rings", after all, not for your money, but for their own money. You cannot count money in someone else's pocket, you cannot count. Three hours later, thank God, the light comes on, you get up and calmly leave with only one reaction. Yes, it makes you feel nauseous, but sometimes it also makes you feel nauseous in life - when you get rocked in a car or eat something wrong. Then it passes anyway, so there is nothing, nothing to be irritated.

However, you watched it, even if at work, but yourself. And what did you see there? What, besides the intensive development of an absolutely empty space, in the "Fellowship of the Ring", which began to pretend to be full thanks to the presence of one hundred million in the budget? Well, this time the budget is a little less, that's why development is a little faster. But two hobbits (Elijah Wood and Sean Astin) continue to go to the land of evil to throw away the extra golden ring. So, it was lying around for some reason. Two other hobbits (Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd) escape from villainous captivity and fall into the forest. Three more bros (Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, John Reese-Davis) end up in a normal country against which the country of evil went to war. Then the first two are faced with a moral monster (fragments of Andy Serkis) and reach the land of evil exclusively through his prayers. The other two are taken prisoner by the living trees of the forest. The three remaining, having entered into human relations with a normal country, organize defense. Then the first two leave the land of evil for another normal country ... And so on. It is possible to list someone's movements on the surface without restrictions.

Of course, due to the constant alternation of three storylines, the rhythm is more cheerful, and does not fall asleep, as it was in the first episode of "The Lord of the Rings". But maybe it would be better to bow, because compositionally the second series resembles just three rolls of toilet paper, put on one wooden crossbar. The paper itself is made of something chewed and chewed, made of entirely synthetic, unnatural fibers, although shiny and iridescent. Of course, whoever needs it will unwind, and in principle, you can spend your life on the toilet. But what then should be sick, that's the question?

Let's leave Tolkien to the Tolkienists. Director Peter Jackson brilliantly dealt with only one moral monster. This Gollum-Smeagorl has both cinematic and psychological meaning. Computer made without fear and reproach, two different voices in reality, suspicious and submissive, ideally convey the eternal suspicion and eternal obedience of each of us, caught in a jam. The split personality on the screen, perhaps, has not yet been conveyed like that. There are no more characters, but Jackson also coped with the transition through the swamp. The dead men who dragged Frodo under the water and awakened his subconscious are always gray and muddy - very stylish, as well as the coloristic solution.
In general, throughout the movie, the combination of close-ups and generals has become better, and sharp travels on the beauties of nature with the appearance of another evil on the horizon or the next stages of the journey give a hint at someone's own eyes that could really see it all. The apotheosis of the hint, unfortunately, is very brief - this is when Faramir, brother of the deceased Boromir (David Wenham), examines an old map of Middle-earth in Gondor. The geographic map as such has exactly that degree of conventionality in combination with a living primary source, which could provide a key to entering everything shown as living and present, with the necessary attributes: empathy, respect, understanding. If only it was repeated more often, which, alas, no.

The war was filmed much better than in the first episode, and not only because it was given almost an hour of time, that is, all the respect of the director. It's just that the Gothic surface looks fatal in war. In the Middle Ages, there really were continuous strife, then a lot was filmed about them, so the castle of Mordor and the castle of Gondor, the exodus of civilians, military councils, sieges and raids, armor and crossbows are neat: all this is dramatically correct.

Jackson still couldn't handle the orcs, the puppet ones as much as their vehicles. In a new way, but also very bad living trees - it's just a disaster. Where are they two-legged from? The wings of black ghosts are unfinished, flexibility is not enough, does not fit into the fatal picture of Sauron's purely electric eye. Elijah Wood is still terrible, especially when he portrays pathos, rolls his eyes in an adult way and speaks mental words, despite the fact that the other day he was shown as a hobbit, that is, pink and fat children's legs. How long will the show last with such a complete lack of a sense of humor?
But, of course, the very nausea is from the distortion of the distorted. In terms of the level of pathos and claims, this is not a children's movie at all, but in the second series it finally becomes clear that Tolkien invented something purely for invention, not for the world and not for the view of it. And now this non-stop, like urinary retention, inventing and broadcasting with thousands of glued noses and ears, freaks and synthesized peoples drawn on the monitor, is absorbing more and more real matters - sky, water, grass. But in this water and this grass there is absolutely nothing spiritualized - that which is given by the context, associations.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kb/s)

Subtitles
English SDH, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Thai, Japanese.