This is the second part to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is my favorite of the three movies.
It starts right where it left off, Sam and Frodo are climbing a mountain and looking over the landscape they have left to travel to be able to get the ring to it's destination. And then on the other end, Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli are on the trail of the Orcs that have Mary and Pippin.
In the early part of the movie you meet a new cast. In a castle a old king who looks awful and when they bring in his son who is mortally injured it's as if he has no idea what is happening. The kings right hand tell sthe king to send away those that "oppose" him (aka his army). This army then goes to kill off the orcs, you know, the ones that have Mary and Pippin.
When Aragon, Legolas, and Gimli get surrounded by the Riders of Rohan, they are told that they left none alive. Even still they go to check out the battleground. The evidence they first see isn't good and leads them to believe that the hobits are dead, but then they see tracts of the hobits that lead into the forest. In the forest they find an old friend they didn't expect to ever see again, Gandalf. He is the one that tells them that they have to help Theoden, the sick king.
When they get to the king, the only weapon they enter with is Gandalf's staff, which he claims is his walking stick. After the spell is broken, Theoden is then made aware of the army of orcs is coming for his people. Gandalf leaves to find more help because Theoden refuses to ask for aid. They retreat to Helms Deep which is a fortress that has never been breeched.
Well there's a first for everything. The orcs blow up the wall and end up getting in. There are a lot of deaths and it looks as if the battle is over in the worst way, when Aragon is reminded the sun is rising on the fifth day since Gandalf left... They rid out and down the hill comes Gandalf with the Riders of Rohan. Too bad for the Orcs, better luck next time.
On the Frodo and Sam side, they run into an unlikely friend, Golem. He's the one that had the ring before Bilbo and he had it for hundreds of years. He wants the ring back, but then in the battle against himself Smeagol pushes Golem out and wants to help Frodo get to Mordor.
After being captured by an army, lead by Boromir's brother (you remember, the only one of the fellowship that actually died in the last movie). He wants the ring just as his brother did, to use it to make his land stronger. Coruption is taking over him. After Smeagol is captured after Frodo went to get him to protect him for his own safety, Golem returns. They create a nasty plan to get the ring back and all it takes is leading Sam and Frodo to Mordor as they want.
Faramir lets Frodo and his group go at the end of the movie, he was able to do what his brother was not able to do.
This movie is action from beginning to end. There is no introduction and no wrapping up in this movie, which I really like.
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