Joe Hammerschmidt’s review published on Letterboxd:
"What director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Jon Spaihts (engers) accomplished with 2021’s Dune, a film cementing his strengths as an auteur seeking and determinably besting his beliefs to balance grand spectacle with immense character development was nothing less than revelatory. He had goosed the Hollywood system with immense depth and detail, taking in the latter like one smells roses at the risk of pacing growing stagnant. The results vary slightly, and yet his hold and ion toward any script continue to build in consistency. Such qualities, with concerns intact, prove above qualifiable with Frank Herbert’s dense, explorative series of adventures exploring personal, professional, political, and religious freedoms. And all in the name of controlling an all-powerful psychotropic spice, namely the desperation of individuals looking to gain the rights first. Not much changes in Dune: Part Two, continuing these trends while amping that frenzied ambition to dire contention."
Full review ----> warm1069.com/review-dune-part-two-second-space-adventure-takes-deeper-staggered-dive-in-the-sand/