All the cast to be honest are good except for the bad guy and Zendaya. 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.
The bloke playing him is the same guy out of mamma mia. The bad guy is this fat floating grease ball… that is like a new take on jabba the hut. 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. 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. There is one ‘oh damn, I didn’t expect that to happen’ but give or take it had a constant trajectory. In fact there’s little character development… it’s all quite obviously leading down one path. 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. My problem was…with just a little bit more effort it could have been more convincing. It didn’t seem to create atmosphere as good as it should have. The visuals are great, but I still wouldn’t say on par with say bladerunner, but more, man of steel. 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. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
See it in theatres, even if you don't end up loving or liking the film, you won't regret it. He was able to recreate even the most intimate nuances that all of us experienced differently when reading the book. No one can ever deny that Denis Villeneuve is a true-and-true fan of the novel. Stunning visuals, and so faithful to the FEELING of the book that I even experienced something I NEVER thought I would experience again: The initial "oh, that's kind of silly and far-fetched" to the "I'm religiously invested in this world and its rules.
#Dune 2000 walkthrough movie#
If this movie was good (and it was GOOD), then the next is going to blow our minds. It's going to be a long and painful intermission because I was ALREADY PREPARED to sit through another two to three hours of this film, and now I will have to bide my time. Then having to stand up and stretch my legs for an intermission. It was like watching the first two and a half steps of an epic: Exposition.
#Dune 2000 walkthrough plus#
I sat through two hours of (essentially) the best exposition ever, plus a cataclysm. Just when I said "here it comes, I'm so, sooo ready for the next two hours of-" and it ended.