Riley Griffin

My hopes for this film were high from the promotional footage in trailers and actors involved. The film certain seemed to be a film of massive proportions and attempting to set up new characters and story lines. I definitely believe this film met those expectations. With gorgeous shots, both with and without CGI, these moments were captured incredibly well. A movie told. shot, and directed incredibly well. As just mentioned the CGI is encapsulating in most scenes. I feel the CGI for the main deviant Kro had a weird feeling, but suited the other deviants quite well. However, the CGI for the celestials is mesmerising, both the sheer scale of these beings and some of the fine details and colours of them is beautiful. The celestials are stunning to see in all the scenes they showed up in and I hope and look forward to seeing them return in future movies. Whilst the CGI is used largely, I would also like to point out the tremendous actors used in this movie. From the more serious side with Sersi (Gemma Chan) and Ikaris (Richard Madden) to the incredibly funny duo of Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) and Karun (Harish Patel). The comedic pair were especially good at making light jokes and relieving the tension whilst not taking away from the threats at hand, amazing job from the pair. In my opinion, the actors chosen for each role fit perfectly. It was clear that the actors worked well together and was impressed with all their performances. This is a fantastic movie that has a promising follow-up in future movies and explains some other movies that have already come out, such as Spiderman: far from home. I completely disagree with critics, as usual a disconnect between the critic and audience viewership, and highly recommend watching this movie, at least to make your own mind. P.S Whilst this was a great movie, this movie does not stand above some other movies (no point giving everything a 5 star), so I scored it a 4 stars (4.5 if it was an option).

I went to watch this movie with a few friends, none of us realising that there was a book or film before this. I noticed at the title screen those few devastating words at the bottom of the screen, "part one". With the knowledge that this movie was two and a half hours, I knew this would (unless it did the incredibly unlikely) bore me. And I wasn't wrong. I would like to begin by saying, what was going on? As stated before I haven't seen or read anything about dune, and neither had the people I went with. After about the first hour I just had to know if either of them understood what was going on. Surprisingly, none of them knew either. This movie is an incomprehensible mess. A movie shouldn't require me or anyone else to have background knowledge on movie before I go and watch, which is where a lot of small details and nuances play a large role in keeping the story flowing. This is what causes this movies disconnect between the viewers who have only seen the large popularity of the film and no other knowledge compared to those who have a basic understanding of the world that Dune part one is set in. I would also like to add that our small group was not the only ones feeling this way, never have I seen so many people and families move so much in one viewing. People were in and out of the screening at least 20+ times with one family going out twice due to the long and boring nature of the film. Secondly, this movie is poorly told. I could not tell you any character other than Timothée Chalamet as Paul, as I checked the cast list after the movie to see if Josh Brollin really was in the movie, and Duncan by Jason Momoa who was the only semi-decent character who I liked. In general, these characters were basic, non-relatable, and I couldn't have cared about what happened to them. Finally, this movie is an elaborate lie fuelled to bring in the masses. Nowhere is it specifically stated outside of a screening that this is Dune: part one, only that it is Dune. I find this quite disgusting as this highly impacts whether someone wants to watch a film or not and they know what they were doing by leaving it out. Continuing with the lies of this film, Zendaya was a secondary character that appeared very minimally, only seen continuously with some lines in the last five minutes. With how heavily she was pushed in the advertisement, I was definitely expecting more screen time from Zendaya. In general, I urge you not to watch this movie. For the absolute waste of time and money, a two year old child could have written a better feature length film in this time. Unless you have any understanding of the Dune lore, DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM!