THREE AND 1/2 STARS
Visually, this second part of Dune It is beautiful, although it has the defect – a great defect in general of the Canadian director Dennis Villeneuve– that each painting seeks a pictorial effect, something that logically goes against the movement that cinema implies.
There is action, of course (in fact there are battles, fights, riding giant worms, etc.) and there is something like galactic politics that reflects the interests of us humans. A bit of the same thing that happened in the ill-fated, curious and surreal version of the same story by David Lynchbut without joy.
Everything is serious here, it should be: after all, we are talking about important things. Luckily, the main character, that Paul Atreides of many names, has enough complexity to maintain interest in what could happen to him; and that the older cast (Bardem, Ferguson, Skarsgaard, Josh Brolin, etc.) is solid.
The adventure, where it has to work, works, but we wonder why everything is so serious, so tremendous, so joyless, so judgmental when it is a fantasy.
