More than once did the audience, filled mostly with academy voters, applaud the heroics of Aragorn. It's much easier to root for Aragorn than it is for Frodo Aragorn has many more qualities of a leading man, a soldier, and a hero. Aragorn satisfies a thirst for someone to root for, a thirst that was left partly unquenched in Fellowship. The performances live well up to the standards of the first film, with a particularly notable performance from Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, whose role is significantly larger in The Two Towers. The majority of the film follows four separate groups and their story lines: Frodo and Sam Aragorn and Legolas, Merry and Pippin, and Saruman and his army. As assumed, The Two Towers begins where The Fellowship of the Ring ended. The battle of Helm's Deep is simply unreal it's unlike any event that has come to pass since fantasy films gained, and regained, popularity. It's difficult to comprehend how such scenes came to exist in the rather short amount of time Peter Jackson has had to create six hours (so far) of finished film. However, to be fair, I feel that it's simply impossible to create two hours of film that could appropriately lead into the battle of Helm's Deep. Perhaps The Two Towers' biggest fault is in its own accomplishments the first two thirds of the film are well shot, well paced, and they necessarily and adequately progress the storyline, but when compared to the spectacular final hour, the first two hours seem uneventful and insignificant. As stated, the road to the battle of Helm's Deep can be enormously long and painful for any viewer aware of what breathtaking scenes await towards the end of the film. It's a shame that such a gap has to exist between the first minute and the final hour, but I take no reservations in saying that despite how you feel about the first two hours of the film, the final hour will make the wait entirely worth its while.
More than anything else, the first two hours merely tease and torment the patient audience. The stunning events of the third hour of The Two Towers are undoubtedly the centerpiece of the film, and while the first two hours serve finely as story development, they primarily build anticipation for the final hour, which mostly depicts the battle of Helm's Deep. The opening scene of The Two Towers provides an outstanding, yet very brief, taste of action, cinematography, and special effects, only to be matched (and far surpassed) in the final hour of the film.
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