Still, Jackson's achievement cannot be denied. The epic fantasy has displaced real contemporary concerns, and audiences are much more interested in Middle Earth than in the world they inhabit. It is a melancholy fact that while the visionaries of a generation ago, like Coppola with " Apocalypse Now," tried frankly to make films of great consequence, an equally ambitious director like Peter Jackson is aiming more for popular success. The story is just a little too silly to carry the emotional weight of a masterpiece. That it falls a little shy of greatness is perhaps inevitable. This is the best of the three, redeems the earlier meandering, and certifies the "Ring" trilogy as a work of bold ambition at a time of cinematic timidity. But "Return of the King" dispatches its characters to their destinies with a grand and eloquent confidence. The second film was inconclusive, and lost its way in the midst of spectacle. I admire it more as a whole than in its parts. At last the full arc is visible, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy comes into final focus.
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