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.

Just as The Empire Strikes Back was an improvement upon A New Hope, this too is an improvement upon its predecessor. It’s a perfect sci-fi epic.

For all its talk about centuries-old religious sects, intergalactic trading guilds, and foretold messiahs, Dune: Part Two is a movie about power and the material resources used to secure it.

Denis Villeneuve’s much-awaited sequel to 2021’s spi-fi epic, Dune, is the first truly great film of 2024. Dune: Part Two’s scope is awe-inspiring, its pacing is electric, and the themes it explores are suspenseful and thought-provoking.

Dune: Part Two leads you on with the idea that we’re watching an avenging hero. In reality, we’re seeing the inevitable, deeply disconcerting outcome of where following a messiah figure takes a culture.