Review of Dune

Dune (2021)
7/10
Star Wars meets GoT and Mad Max in an artsy filter
14 September 2021
Beautiful looking with very good effects. Its visually great. The music is organic and sets the mood, although the music doesn't "set up" the scene as you might expect it to, making some of the more exciting scenes a little underwhelming perhaps.

Acting is great, characters are mostly likable. Chalamet walks a fine like between acting and over-acting a couple times, but all in all he's good.

The story is alright, I did get the names and the different "races" a little mixed up, even though it's not very complicated. Guess I'm dumb. Bummer that this is just the first part. When a movie is 2,5 hours long, I'd like to get a satisfactory ending, not just "to be continued".

The action scenes sort of sneak up on ya, but they are well executed. The choreography is alright, and the action looks good.

I liked the lore and the technology-stuff. The look of everything and the world building is great. Visually it's pretty sweet. Lots of sand, though. Lots of sand.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure Dune will flop. Not because it's bad, but because I just can't see enough people being really into this, or even giving it a chance.

And it seems pretty obvious that the studio has got big plans. A lot of work went into this I think, and I hope for the crew/casts sake that it does well.
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