Who is the Director?

Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, is a four-time Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction filmmaker who is renowned for his highly acclaimed movie Arrival.

Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Dune: Part Two is the epitome of cinematographic interpretations of legendary and timeless sci-fi books.

I have watched an innumerable number of notable movies these last fifteen years—the Space Odyssey, which is generally considered the best movie of all time, Back To The Future, an enduring classic, and Charlie’s Chocolate factory, a true masterpiece of the 2000s movie era.  Suffice it to say that Dune: Part Two immediately earned a place on my list of the best movies of all time.

I am sure that not everybody will feel positively about Dune: Part Two. I am sure that some critics will feel negatively and express their negativity towards Dune: Part Two—after all, no one’s perfect, right?

Erik Kain, a senior contributor of Forbes who writes reviews about TV shows and movies, says that Dune: Part Two is “hollow.” He writes that the scores that Denis Villeneuve used were not emotionally captivating or “touching” but that they were dull and “flat”:

“I was not really moved by any of it … I was not convinced on an emotional level. There is a revenge story here, but it fell flat in many ways. And that hollowness I was talking about at the top—mostly that’s the feeling I left the theater with. This was a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, weirdly emotionally empty film.”

For me, and I bet for many other people also, the music was one of the many factors that made some scenes of Dune—in fact, the whole film—mysterious and strangely alluring. Many critics seem to agree with this claim: Lingo X, a movie critic at Rotten Tomatoes, in response to Erik Kane’s comment, writes, “Disagree, the quiet between the storm moved me to tears every time I listened to it. Even the three second note during the resurrection was powerful enough to make me waste my body’s moisture.”

Final Remarks

Since the popularization of the book Dune, there have been many attempts at trying to successfully adapt the book into a movie. The general consensus among viewers and critics alike is that they were a failure. The 2021 and 2024 Dunes, however, is, as to put it in Rotten Tomato terms, “fresh,” with a high rating of 83% on RT and a 8/10 on IMDb. I highly recommend anyone interested in the sci-fi genre—or, for that matter, anyone interested in movies—to go to the nearest movie theater and watch Dune: Part Two while it’s still out.