Dune: Part Two

As a sequel, it works for the same reasons that make The Empire Strikes Back so many people’s favourite Star Wars film: there’s a darkness, a bleakness, that makes the fist-pumping moments feel all-the-more earned.

As different from the first film as [Ridley Scott's] Alien is to [James Cameron's] Aliens. Same stuff, totally different genre!

There is little character development and it’s not for the literal-minded -- or anyone who has, despite their best efforts, paid some attention.

An epic and spectacular sci-fi allegory with mass appeal.

You know Villeneuve will get the spectacle right. The question is about the human drama… It almost all connected in Part Two.

As in all of these sci-fi epics, there are plenty of scenes in which computer-generated characters drive computer-generated vehicles past computer-generated backdrops but, in "Dune," it feels human, slightly messy and organic.

So alien in appearance, so human in its themes, Dune: Part Two is a peerless sci-fi film for the ages.

I drank a Red Bull before seeing Dune: Part 2. ... I should have had two. Maybe then it would have been easier to get through this at times ponderous and repetitive sci-fi sequel. 


...a ponderous and terminally underwhelming (and uninvolving) endeavor that strikes all the wrong notes right from the get-go...

Villeneuve delivers a certain solemnity through the visual and sounding side, but the land swallows his narrative and spits out the residues in the sand. [Full review in Spanish]