Dune 2 Part 2 Review (SPOILER VERSION)

Paul: "I'm not a messiah, I'm just a normal guy" later Stilgar: "He's so humble, he has to be the messiah"

Anyone else notice that the un-drugged prisoner was an atreides officer that got a LOT of screen time in the first film? He's at almost every military/royal meeting scene. Excellent touch

Lady Jessica using the voice on a Fremen soldier, despite the fact he would follow her commands even without the voice, shows how ruthless she is. She is not giving any chance for mistakes.

The cinematography was beautiful. Remember the scene after Paul wakes up from drinking the water of life? The room is full of people and it focuses in on Jessica, and the lights go dim, and it swings around to Paul in an empty room. It was like a play. I love that

The scene after Jessica takes the water of life, where it hard cuts to Stilgar and his friends saying “of course the messiah would be to humble to say he’s the messiah” killed me

My favorite performance from the film has to be Javier Bardem's Stilgar. He starts off funny and charismatic but over the course of the film you realize the horror and tragedy of his character as he slowly transforms from Paul's friend and mentor to little more than a fanatical follower, consumed by the prophecy. "Lead them to paradise," followed by Stilgar, without question or hesitation, leading the Fedaykin legions to begin their holy war across the stars. Serious chills. The whole ending sequence, and especially that line - "Lead them to paradise" - will be burned into my mind for a long time.

I think the unborn Alia makes more sense in the movie, it means that you don't have to try and show a 2 year old that can walk and talk like a regular adult. Means that by movie 3 we can have a more grown up Alia who's still young but very sharp.

that scene of lady jessica talking with alia and the shot spanning to her eerie face and how she said that "she must start with the weak" literally gave me chills

Paul says "this one died like an animal" when he kills the Baron, and he stabs him through the neck, so it's clearly still a Gom Jabbar reference

I love the Feyd-Rautha and Lady Fenring scene. Making him an intelligent calculating sadistic psychopath made for a more dimensional character. Someone asked how he could pass the gom jabbar, and the point should be that he’s in control enough to be human and not an animal (ie a product of Bene Gesserit genetics), but he’s still able to be manipulated.

The Baron’s ear closeup with the ants has to be a David Lynch Blue Velvet homage

Paul: does nothing Stilgar: LISAN AL GAIB

The juxtaposition of the Harkon burning the Atreides body with the Fremen burning the Sadukar and Harkon bodies at the end was perfect.

When Paul walks in to kill the Baron reminds me of when Stilgar first meets Leto I. Walking straight through with no regard for non-Fremen authority. Felt so full circle

The only unbelieveable part of the movie is that Lea Seydoux needed to use the voice to get someones seed.

This needs the 4hour director's cut treatment. I feel like there's just so much more to it than what we were given.

They almost squeezed a Monty Python bit in verbatim lmao. "I am not the Messiah, don't you understand? Honestly!" "...Only the TRUE messiah denies his divinity!" "What!? What sort of chance does that give me? Alright I AM the messiah!" "HE IS!!! HE IS THE MESSIAH!!!"

I’ve waited 45 years to see a successful Dune adaptation on the big screen. It’s done, it’s … definitive. A huge fan of the Frank Herbert hexalogy, I realized I’m very comfortable with his changes, though I had doubts about Lady Jessica’s portrayal in Part 1 - much better in Part 2. Ferguson is awesome in both parts, by the way. As a fellow Québécois, I’ve followed Denis’s career climb with awe, amazement and pride since the mid-nineties. Twenty years after LOTR, we have a Duneverse to cherish now. Thanks, Quinn !

That moment he tells the reverend mother "Silence!" and she gets knocked back was a nice touch since he was pissed she used the voice on him in part 1 and he flaunted his new power level on her. Quick moment but loved it.

The director mentioned in an interview that the focus of this iteration of Dune is on specifically the Bene Gesserit, which is one of the reasons why we don't see Thufir Hawat at all in Dune Part 2. It seems pretty clear that the Bene Gesserit are the villains of this iteration, and with the major twist that Chani doesn't follow Paul at the end of Dune part 2, I'm very excited to see what will happen in the potential sequel, Dune Messiah.