Basically, THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME!! The fight seens aren't terribly gory (hence the PG-13) but if you are squeemish this wouldn't be your kind of movie. The actors are great (but some of the scenes are slightly corny). The makeup is top-notch, considering the fact that the FOTR won the Best Makeup Academy Award. The visual effects are amazing and really add to the realisticness of the movie. The soundtrack is probably my favorite out of all movies that ever existed. The score is so amazing that you have to hear it to believe it. But what got me the most was the actual storyline. It has some funny scenes but most of the movie is serious and deals with issues like war, death, and moving on. It shows how war can force a person to mature and fufil their duties. The actual actors I liked but many of them were not well-known before the movie (besides Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler and possibly John Rhys-Davies). Before winter of 2001, who ever heard of Billy Boyd? In fact, you can thank LOTR for Orlando Bloom's whole career. Personally my favorite actor was Sean Astin who played Sam. Now get ready for the big part.

Synopsis: I'm gunna give you a little backround info on the other 2 movies because if you haven't seen them you will be pretty lost during ROTK. At the very beginning of the first movie there is a little prologue of what happened before when the movie takes place. It talks about how these people made rings of power and gave them to the different types of beings; Elves, Dwarves, and Men. But the evil guy who made them also made this other all powerful ring which he didn't tell anybody about. Then he wages a was using his ring against all of Middle Earth (the world where the story takes place). The good guys win obviously and this one Man named Isildur takes the powerful ring for himself. But the ring corrupts him with power and soon he dies when someone tries to steal it. Later this little river hobbit guy finds it and it corrupts him too turning him into Golum (a character who will appear later.) But Gollum then looses the ring after hundreds of years to this hobbit guy named biblbo. END OF PROLOGUE. The story starts out in a quaint little town called Hobbiton. It is Bilbo's (the uncle of our main character) 111th birthday. This cool wizard friend f his (Gandalf) came to town to celebrate.Bilbo has a party then gets ready to leave on his last journey before he dies. He is planning to leave all of his belongings to his nephew Frodo (main character). But when he gets to leaving the ring behind he has trouble doing it. Gandlaf convinces him to get rid of it then Biblo leaves. Gandalf then gives the ring to Frodo. Then Gandalf does a little research and finds out REALLY how evil this ring is. He goes back to Frodo and tells him that he must bring the Ring to Rivindel and they will have a council there and decide what to do.Frodo leaves town with his best friend/gardener Samwise Gamgee and meets up with two friends, Peregrin Took (Pippin) and Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry). They have a little adventure and make it to the town of Bree. Here they meet a ranger named Strider who joins them on their quest. Yadda yadda yadda they get to Rivendel some more yadda and they form a little Fellowship that will be bringing the ring to Mt. Doom (this place far away which is the only place to destroy the ring). The Fellowship contains 2 Men, Aragorn and Boromir, a dwarf named Gimli, an Elf named Legolas, Gandalf and the four hobbits. This is basically the first movie. Yeah i know its long as hell so bear with me. The group travels and has many adventures finally they make it to this mountain where Gandalf falls down a hole and everyone cries. Then Boromir dies. After this the Fellowship starts to slowly brake apart. Soon they have their own small little groups. Frodo and Sam who are trying to bring the ring to Mt. Doom. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli who go to rescue Pippin and Merry who got stolen by the bad guys, and Gandalf who eventually and miraculously comes back. Basically the second movie is a lot of walking a bit of fighting and Frodo and Sam meet Gollum who becomes their guide. In ROTK Gollum also plays a big role. A quick summary of the non-Frodo and Sam adventure is there is a bit of huge talking trees who hang out with Merry and Pippin, a huge fight scene where Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli kick arse, and a lot of orcs. Finally a few friends get reunited and the rest is history....until we get to ROTK. What? There's still more you say? Yes indeed...but if you really want to know, you could have skipped this whole summary section because if you want the facts, there's only one. THIS MOVIE IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER! Yeah it may seem EXTREMELY confusing right now but if you have the ability to go and rent the first two I'd say it would be a good use of money. I'm not really in the mood to summarize the third movie cause you should see the movie and find out for yourself.

Although it is a but-kicking action movie, ROTK it is also a touching drama. ROTK is the kind of movie that will go down in histo ry for generations to come. And if you won't take MY word for it, just ask the the 11 OSCARS IT WON INCLUDING BEST PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTOR!! Hell yeah!

Acting: 8/10 Plotline: 10/10 Soundtrack: 10/10 Entertainment: 10/10 Overall: 10/10