Dune Movie Review concepts

The first act of dune movie is stuffed with seductive glints of treachery, but the film by no means fairly reaches the extent of visionary madness it goals for. In the hands of Denis Villeneuve, director of Sicario and Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, it's still a blinding experience. But, unlike these movies, which drew on the identical wellspring of concepts as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, this new Dune wears its aspiration to star-child, auteur-anointing spectacle squarely on its sleeve.

It's 10191, and Duke Leto Atreides (a note-perfect Oscar Isaac) and his clairvoyant concubine Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) have been given the go-ahead by their rivals in House Harkonnen to colonize the hostile desert planet Arrakis and mine its psychedelic spice for the benefit of their household and their empire. It's a dangerous proposition, and the Atreides might want to persuade a skeptical populace that their son Paul Atreides is the Kwisatz Haderach, or "man of future," who can deliver peace and prosperity to the entire universe.

There are plenty of hurdles to clear in such a grand plan: complicated interplanetary politics involving House Atreides, their bitter rivals the Harkonnens and their Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV; made-up languages that make it straightforward to miss important plot points; the Fremen's mystical reference to the earth; the emperor's eugenics program; the savage setting of Arrakis itself. But Villeneuve's movie clears a lot of them, due to a pre-credits sequence that does lots of the expository heavy lifting with wit and economy; some deft scripting from Eric Roth and Jason Momoa; and, most importantly, a young actor within the title position who conveys all of the grief and concern that his messiah burden ought to encourage.

Timothee Chalamet is a revelation right here, conveying the grief of expectation with the drowsy slump of his shoulders and the contemplative wariness of his voice. But his performance is anchored by an astonishing conviction: It's hard to imagine that the younger man in this Dune will be the only one who can save humanity from its current destructive course.

ดูซีรี่ย์ฝรั่ง  has a firm hand on the throttle right here, managing his source materials with a way of function and urgency that's missing from David Lynch's 1984 disaster of a film. The movie also boasts dazzling visuals and a way of place that is all too rare in a sci-fi flick. And, if you can overlook the fact that it would not totally ship on its Messianic promise, the world-building on this Dune is worth your time. Just don't anticipate it to change your life. - David Ehrlich, Vulture