Huge tanks crawl across the desert mining the spice and are whisked away by hot air balloon-like aircraft. Massive starships rise up through oceans before floating across vast expanses of space. Director Villeneuve, along with cinematographer Greig Fraser, has built a world that will make you feel as small as a grain of sand in the Arrakis dunes. The production design and special effects of "Dune" are incredible. You'll be forced to whisper "fear is the mind-killer" to yourself by the end of its intense 155 minutes. This is a film that demands your attention and respect. This is a spoiler-free review.įrom its bombastic, Zendaya-narrated prologue, "Dune" grabs you by the throat and doesn't loosen its grip until the credits. Here's why "Dune" is the must-see blockbuster epic of the year. Villeneuve's film is deeply faithful to the book and succeeds where other attempts have failed. And David Lynch disavowed his own 1984 film adaptation. Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt collapsed in the 1970s.
Since it's so dense with layers of political intrigue, religious mysticism and environmental themes, "Dune" is infamously difficult to adapt to the big screen. Herbert delves into ecology, religion, the plight of indigenous peoples and many other weighty topics. But the book is so much more than swords and spaceships.
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Villeneuve's adaptation of the beloved science-fiction novel is a grandiose cinematic achievement that deserves to be in the same conversation as our most adored movie epics, like " Lord of the Rings," " Star Wars" and even " Lawrence of Arabia."įrank Herbert's 1965 book is a futuristic space opera about two powerful families fighting over the valuable "spice," an extremely important resource found only on the desert planet Arrakis. ARRAKIS - Movies that feel as huge and monumental as Denis Villeneuve's spectacular "Dune" only come around once in a generation.
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