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Generic, uninspired, plodding. Like all science fiction these days it all looks the same as any other movie. Nothing original or interesting. If you liked the novel you won't care about the movie. If you never read the novel you'll be bored. Watch the trailer for 150 minutes and you've seen it. Plus it's only the first half of the first book.
Some shockingly bad acting and the budget clearly didn't go into the script. Casting Star Wars man and Superwaterman guy was obviously because they needed some names to draw an audience. They both played themselves, the same as they do in every movie. Ex-wrestler guy was barely in it so he was less noticeable.
It wasn't egregious with the pushing of minority and women characters front and center but it was obvious they had to do it and to make them all the good guys even when it wasn't necessary.
I don't know what rating they were aiming for but it was shamefully tame. A little bit of blood in a few scenes but all deaths were safe for basically any audience. All the fighting was formulaic and the army invasion scene was like Star Wars with more sand.
I wanted to like it and had hopes that it'd be at least watchable. A couple of scenes were ok but nothing worth sitting through the whole thing for. Denis Villeneuve was a bad choice but chances are it could've been worse with anyone else at the helm.
One dune coon out of five:
Some shockingly bad acting and the budget clearly didn't go into the script. Casting Star Wars man and Superwaterman guy was obviously because they needed some names to draw an audience. They both played themselves, the same as they do in every movie. Ex-wrestler guy was barely in it so he was less noticeable.
It wasn't egregious with the pushing of minority and women characters front and center but it was obvious they had to do it and to make them all the good guys even when it wasn't necessary.
I don't know what rating they were aiming for but it was shamefully tame. A little bit of blood in a few scenes but all deaths were safe for basically any audience. All the fighting was formulaic and the army invasion scene was like Star Wars with more sand.
I wanted to like it and had hopes that it'd be at least watchable. A couple of scenes were ok but nothing worth sitting through the whole thing for. Denis Villeneuve was a bad choice but chances are it could've been worse with anyone else at the helm.
One dune coon out of five: