Denis Villeneuve's superior sequel gives you a tougher Timothée Chalamet, a psychotic Austin Butler, and way more Zendaya and sandworms. It's amazing.
House Atreides, the noble family that oversaw the rule of the spice-rich planet Arrakis, is no more. Its patriarch, Duke Leto, is dead. His heir Paul Atreides, and the young man’s mother Lady Jessica, are both presumed to have been killed as well. House Harkonnen, led by the corpulent and cybernetically enhanced Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, will once again take control of Arrakis and mine its deserts for its prized — and extremely hallucinogenic — resource.
For some, these names may ring bells way, way back in your memory banks; mention that they’re characters played by, Oscar Isaac, and a who’s-who of equally recognizable actors, and you’ll see the lights go on in their eyes. For others, the heroes and villains, mentors and monsters that populate Frank Herbert’s 1965 cult novel are old friends, their exploits etched into readers’ brains like gospel.
But this act is also where you see Paul Atreides come into his own, and by extension, the actor who plays him.is where you see a boy having grown into a man, who then evolves into a reluctant — and eventually not-so-reluctant — savior. There’s a sense that Chalamet has not just stepped into the role but stepped up his game to play Paul 2.0, even if his coy courtship of Zendaya’s character occasionally veers into heartthrob’s-gonna-heartthrob territory.
By the time these two adversaries finally meet in front of all the main characters still left standing, hoping their knives chip and shatter, we’ve seen a lot: Léa Seydoux shows up as a seductive priestess,as a cantankerous mentor, a sun that looks like a bat-signal, troops attacked by not one but three Freudian-as-fuck sandworms with armies astride their backs. And still, you feel as if the storytelling wave is just beginning to crest.
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