‘Dune’ Review: Spectacular and Engrossing…Until It Isn’t
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variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s droolingly anticipated, eye-bogglingly vast adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 cult sci-fi novel, the characters fly around in airplanes that have three sets of wings, all of which flap very fast.
The planes look like insects, and the film suggests that’s one way that a flying machine, in another planetary sphere, might have evolved.
On Earth, we styled our airplanes after birds. In “Dune,” they’re modeled on bugs, which gives them a fluttery malevolence.“Dune,” a majestically somber and grand-scale sci-fi trance-out, is full of lavish hugger-mugger — clan wars, brute armies, a grotesque autocrat villain, a hero who may be the Messiah — that links it, in spirit and design, to.
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