Sajin Shrijith’s review of Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune: Part Two’: This magnificent, spectacle-laden sequel fares better despite minor shortcomings
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 1, 2024
- 1 min read
The filmmaker overcomes the mammoth challenge of making us aware of the intricacies and minutiae of Dune’s immense world-building and focusing on its characters simultaneously.
It’s a cause for much joy when a filmmaker known for his penchant for science fiction offers visual callbacks to iconic films in the genre in the opening moments of his latest, Dune: Part Two. Based on the books by Frank Herbert, Part Two, which picks up from Dune: Part One, begins with a voiceover belonging to Florence Pugh that sounds eerily similar to Linda Hamilton’s in the Terminator films. The accompanying image of bodies burnt, too, recalls James Cameron’s dystopian nightmare. The subsequent image of an embryo is reminiscent of the final image from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I began thinking of how death and birth (or rebirth) become a recurring theme in Part Two.
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