Reviews

Don't listen to TikTok attention spans. This is a good watch. Much like Apple TV's 'Invasion' the monster is something intangible and complicated. Elizabeth Moss is fantastic and sells the fragility of her character with ease. Like a prevailing wind, darkness tatters the edges of episode 1 repeatedly, hinting at an alternate reality.

Give it a shot. You might enjoy it if have a few brain cells left up there after all the memes and gif animations have destroyed the rest.

I want to start by saying this really is a movie for fans of the novel. If you are just approaching it (Dune) for the first time, the scope might be confusing. It's also a movie which is most certainly part of a larger set. Alone it barely introduces the characters and the various houses. The Dune universe is a highly complex evolved narrative space. I think if the film were any simpler it would have been a disservice to Frank Herbert.

It did feel a little half set up but I believe good things are to come.

At the end of the day this is most accurate book adaptation of any high sci-fi I've seen. It is pretty much exactly as I imagined it.

I am a David Lynch but In regards to Dune, I believe he neither had the technology or the insight to pull it off. The 80's Film being slightly kookie but without the sense of scale of the novel.

Denis Villenauve, on the other hand, is a master of FX driven scifi, I am hugely satisfied with his vision though left sorely wanted more from the execution.

I'm still giving it 9/10. Most entertaining thing I've seen in a couple of years.