Messy, convoluted script; outlandish visual design and fine casting.

Intruging.

1/5

As long as you go into Dune aware that it's one of the messiest science fiction films ever, bloated, sometimes laughable and often incomprehensible, you might have a good time. Personally I think it's much more entertaining than Plan 9 or the other celebrated disasters; there's a great cast and a soaringly pretentious soundtrack. Most of the sets are phenomenal. The only way this would have worked in a conventional sense would have been a 5/6 hour cut with a minimum number of voiceovers.

Lynch at his silliest. fun absurdity. bears little relation to the books, and makes no sense on its own.

I've read Dune just like everybody else and the problem with this is that it's forced to condense so much source material in just 2 hours. During the whole thing I thought I was watching a very long trailer of an upcoming movie.

An adaptation too ambitious for its own good. It is overloaded, going through too many characters and plot turns without allowing the viewer to make any sort of emotional investment. It ditches the novel's political, religious, and social themes in favor of a visceral experience. The problem with that is that the costumes, sets, makeup, and special effects are tacky, and the acting is horrible. I wasn't expecting a good movie, but as a fan of the novel I was at least expecting a good time. Nope.

Take Lynch's distinct a/v qualities, sets that would be right at home in a Burton/Gilliam-esque world, and a long fucking book that I know nothing about, throw 'em in a blender and forget to put the lid back on. A mess, but an interesting one.

Over-ambitious yet containing some interesting elements, Dune ultimately falls short in execution after a promising exposition. Sadly, a failure both as a mainstream science-fiction film and as a David Lynch film.

A wonderful science-fiction film, with memorable dialogue and an interesting style of narration. It seems like David Lynch wanted to cram as much of the novel Dune into the movie as he could, and in the end there is much left to be desired. Great performances all around, but overall this film certainly isn't a sci-fi classic.

i like linch but i found this movie boring. Jodorowsky could do it better but meh

Wow, this was worse than I expected.

I don't know if it's possible to get through this whole story in two hours, but David Lynch certainly wasn't able to do it here. There's really nothing wrong with the film other than it feels so compressed.

So close to the original book it's unbelievable. A remake or a different take on it may not live up to this masterpiece, unfortunately.