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Dune: Part Two (2024) - film review

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To be frank, I think I'm not so used to seeing (drastically) raved reviews of, not just Dune: Part Two , but any movie, and then to have to objectively lower my own expectations before seeing it on the big screen myself so as to avoid any sort of disappointment, and also to be able to review it as neutrally as I can. Still of Zendaya (right), "Chani", and Timothée Chalamet ("Paul Atreides") in Dune: Part Two Credit: Warner Bros. My first viewing of Dune: Part Two was on its day of release in Singapore, in IMAX. Because of the above-mentioned, I finished the film impressed nonetheless, but also couldn't quite quantify the film's quality, resulting in a rating-less review on Letterboxd . A month passed, and I took my mum to my second viewing (which was her first), and I finally managed to collect my thoughts about the movie. I'm just gonna say that I find parts one and two vastly different, and to rank one of them above the other is probably impossibl