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Braindead is the original and still the best.

Tellingly, despite all this extra material, the film does not feel slower and does not become boring. If anything, it’s better balanced, with a more fluid sense of momentum.

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

More combat means less time for character interaction, and by the third act, Jackson has already shoehorned in more characters than the film can handle.

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

Big is back.

Has its moments of genius.

The Return Of The King is too long and slow. It has about five endings.

This is indeed the war of worlds

If Jackson was hoping for ethereal over corny, he’s failed decisively

Numerous small changes work together to change the character of the battle.

Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.

There is more world building here than in any other part of the trilogy, and the additional material means it’s better balanced with character development.