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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
An extremely impressive conclusion to the story. Villeneuve excels at capturing the vast grandeur and epic sweep of Herbert's mythpoeia, but where this adaptation really earns its keep is in its choice to illustrate Paul's rise to messiahdom through more personal, human stakes. By concentrating on the relationship between Paul and Chani, Villeneuve frames the story as a classic tragedy of lost love, revenge, and duty, making Paul's eventual choice to embrace his godhood more explicitly the moral and spiritual…
Totally functional bash-em-together crossover movie that largely lacks the superior writing and character work which was the trademark of the two TV shows. Robot fights are epic but underwhelming at the same time without much of a human connection to all the flashy action going on. Still some lovely individual segments and some great gags, but overall a disappointment.