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Duneis already pulling in rave reviews!
The sci-fi film, which premiered Friday at the Venice Film Festival, has many critics praising it as first reactions begin to roll in.
“Dunereminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be,“Xan Brooks ofThe Guardianwrote.
Justin Chang ofThe Los Angeles Timessaid director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) “draws you into an astonishingly vivid, sometimes plausibly unnerving vision of the future” throughout the movie.
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With that in mind,Leah Greenblatt ofEntertainment Weeklysaid, “If you’re already knee-deep in Herbert mythology, you’ll thrill to every whispered word” but warned, “if you come in not knowing the difference between a Holtzman shield and a hole in the floor, it’s a longer walk.”
Those that haven’t read the novel, however, can still find the film “breathtaking,” according toCatherine Bray fromFilm of the Week.
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“It’s been a while since I’ve seen a fantasy film go all out and fully commit to a mode of high seriousness, and I suspect that if what you love most about Marvel is the quips, you might not likeDunevery much,” she wrote.
“It took me a little while to get into this register of storytelling,” she later confessed, “but luckilyDunegives you a long while. It’s a magnificent epic.”
Robbie Collin of the U.K.‘sDaily TelegraphsaidDuneis “science-fiction at its most majestic, unsettling and enveloping.”
“Watching it feels like wandering through some enormous, otherworldly structure built in honour of higher powers you’ve never heard of – and, from the look of the place, rather hope don’t actually exist,” he explained.
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Ben Travis ofEmpireMagazinecalled it “an absorbing, awe-inspiringly huge adaptation of (half of) Frank Herbert’s novel that will wow existing acolytes,” that he said will “hook” newcomers “on its Spice-fuelled visions.”
“If Part Two never happens, it’ll be a travesty,” he added.
Dunehits theaters on October 22.
source: people.com
