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Dune: Part Two<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 167 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence, some suggestive material, brief strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Denis Villeneuve\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Music: Hans Zimmer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Greig Fraser\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 1, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Lea Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, Anya Taylor-Joy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I concluded my review of Dune: Part One by expressing my hope that Dune: Part Two<\/strong> would be just as amazing. I\u2019m happy to report it is. Like its predecessor, you don\u2019t just watch it, you marvel at it. It\u2019s not some loud, empty, dumbed-down CGI-driven spectacle that\u2019s more of an assault on the senses than entertainment. It\u2019s huge alright; it\u2019s filmmaking on a grand scale. If any recent film deserves to be called an epic, this is it. It\u2019s like director Denis Villeneuve was guided by the hand of David Lean. This is what going to the movies should be about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Dune: Part Two<\/strong> picks right up where the last one left off, with Paul Atreides (Chalamet, Wonka) and his mother Lady Jessica (Ferguson, Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One) walking through the desert with the Fremen after being left for dead in the desert by their Harkonnen enemies. The leader of the desert tribe Stilgar (Bardem, No Country for Old Man) believes young Paul is the promised one, the savior that will bring about peace, the Kwisatz Haderach. Paul doesn\u2019t see it that way, but all the signs point to it being true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The attack on House Atreides was orchestrated by Emperor Shaddam IV (Walken, Batman Returns) in an attempt at a power grab. With the Harkonnens in power on Arrakis once again, Paul joins the Fremen in the fight against their oppressors. They wage war on them, destroying spice harvesters in well-planned attacks. The evil Baron (Skarsgard, Thor) responds by sending his psychotic nephew Feyd-Rautha (Butler, Elvis) to Arrakis to deal with the threat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0A lot happens in Dune: Part Two<\/strong>, so much that I couldn\u2019t possibly cover it all here so I\u2019ll just give you the salient points. Lady Jessica becomes the Fremen\u2019s Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother and uses her new position to push the idea of Paul being the Messiah of the prophecy. Paul forms a romantic relationship with tough Fremen warrior Chani (Zendaya, Spider-Man: No Way Home) who doesn\u2019t believe in the prophecy. I think that should suffice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I realize the interjection \u201cWOW!\u201d tends to be overused, but it\u2019s the only way to accurately describe the experience of watching Dune: Part Two<\/strong>. Villeneuve draws the viewer into a world first realized in the imagination of Frank Herbert, the author of the classic sci-fi novel from which the film is adapted. Let me tell you, it\u2019s a great adaptation. I\u2019d even say it\u2019s perfect. As much as I like David Lynch\u2019s version from 1984, it\u2019s more like an outline of the book than an adaptation. It\u2019s so dense with characters, relationships and important events, it can\u2019t be crammed into 137 minutes. To be fair, the blame lies more with the studio execs at Universal for making Lynch cut it down after initially delivering a three-hour cut. It was a wise decision on Villeneuve\u2019s part to divide the saga into more than one film. SPOILER ALERT! <\/strong>He plans to do a third movie based on Dune Messiah. The door is left wide open for it. I do believe we\u2019re looking at a trilogy here. I don\u2019t know about you, but it makes me happy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Visually, Dune: Part Two<\/strong> is just as stunning as One which won six Oscars; Visual Effects, Cinematography, Sound and Production Design among them. I can see this one repeating this remarkable feat and it would be deserved. The effects are spot-on as is the dazzling cinematography by Greig Fraser. He beautifully captures the vast deserts of Arrakis and the bleak world of Harkonnen planet Giedi Prime, a place completely devoid of color. The action scenes are well-orchestrated, never once confusing the viewer with wild overediting. You can actually tell what\u2019s going on and who\u2019s fighting who. The music by Hans Zimmer augments the action in the best way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The screenplay by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts is extremely intelligent and well-written. Not only does it allow for proper plot and character development, it also takes the time to develop its deeper themes of politics, power and religious fanaticism.\u00a0 It\u2019s surprising dense for a mainstream movie. The cast is top-notch too. There\u2019s not a single bad performance from anybody. Walken and Butler are great additions to the cast as is Florence Pugh (Black Widow) as Princess Irulan. I\u2019m glad to see her character gets more to do in Dune: Part Two<\/strong> than Sean Young did in the \u201984 version. Chalamet is terrific as Paul Atreides, later to become Paul Muad\u2019Dib. He\u2019s totally believable as a young prince slowly realizing and accepting his destiny, but at what cost. Zendaya is awesome as always. She\u2019s so bad ass.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019ve been waiting more than two years for Dune: Part Two<\/strong>. It was supposed to come out last November, but got pushed back to the SAG and writers strikes. It was worth the wait! It\u2019s the best movie I\u2019ve seen in a very long time. I look forward to Part Three, but I hope Villeneuve takes his time with it. A rush job simply would not do the others justice.<\/p>\r\n Dune: Part Two (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 167 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence, some suggestive material, brief strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Denis Villeneuve\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Music: Hans Zimmer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Greig Fraser\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 1, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-fi-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dune-Part-Two-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dune-Part-Two-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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