Review of Dune (2021) by Acidcasual — 23 Oct 2021
With over 18 months of hype and promising roles by Timothee and Zendaya, who’ve not yet proven themselves, but rather a statement about the type of character in this universe. It was good at best.
The visuals are great, but I still wouldn’t say on par with say bladerunner, but more, man of steel. It didn’t seem to create atmosphere as good as it should have.
My problem was…with just a little bit more effort it could have been more convincing. I heard a review talk about how it’s a futuristic Lord if the rings… after watching it you can see why but unlike LOTR it doesn’t have any thrills and spills that build the characters along the way. In fact there’s little character development… it’s all quite obviously leading down one path. There is one ‘oh damn, I didn’t expect that to happen’ but give or take it had a constant trajectory.
Yes, there’s these ongoing visions which try and show you what will happen, but in a twisty turny way… but they’re not that exciting. zendaya features a lot in the film in these visions, but actually you see 5 minutes of her and when you do, there’s not a lot of acting from her.
The bad guy is this fat floating grease ball… that is like a new take on jabba the hut. The bloke playing him is the same guy out of mamma mia. He’s just not scary enough… He comes out of black ouze and at one point looks like a giant snake or worm, there’s plenty of opportunity to knock our socks off. But nothing.
All the cast to be honest are good except for the bad guy and Zendaya.
They can easily make all this work in the next part, that’s the only saving grace.
This review of Dune (2021) was written by Acidcasual on 23 Oct 2021.
Dune has generally received very positive reviews.
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