‘Dune: Part Two’ review: Dir. Denis Villeneuve (2024)
thehollywoodnews.comAfter David Lynch tried to adapt Frank Herbert’s “unadaptable” Dune with little success in 1984, Denis Villeneuve had a crack in 2021 by splitting the book in two and he set a new bar for the sci-fi genre with Dune: Part One.
Part Two has a lot to prove but fans of Herbert’s magnum opus can rest easy because it’s every bit as groundbreaking as its predecessor and then some. The title card at the end of Dune boldly declared itself as “Part One” and left many apprehensive about the future of the story.
Would it even happen? After all, Villeneuve’s epic wasn’t exactly a mainstream sell and it came with a sizeable $ 165 million price tag.
But after grossing $ 402 million (during COVID times, no less), a sequel was quickly fast-tracked with the promise of really getting into the book’s political heft and Herbert’s strangeness and that’s exactly what it does.
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