Michael O’Sullivan
A YOUNG messiah finally finds his calling – after two long hours and change – in Dune (which, it should be noted, is actually Dune: Part 1, although this fact is not well advertised in the film’s marketing material).
“It begins,” as it says, accurately, on one of the posters for the new film, gorgeously adapted by director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival), from a smart screenplay he co-wrote with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts, based on novelist Frank Herbert’s beloved, legendarily unadaptable 1965 sci-fi opus.
Maybe don’t expect full closure.
The story does reach a nice stopping point, however, if you set your expectations accordingly: for what turns out to be the first half of one gigantic bedtime story, set in the year 10 091, on the inhospitable…