Dune: Part Two

10 “Lead them to paradise.” Dune: part two is the follow up and improvement to Dune, bigger and better, a continuation to an epic narrative which boasts stunning visuals, an incredible cast, an incredible score, and an invigorating narrative that builds on the first. It builds on the political and religious aspects without hindering it down to slogging exposition. It expands the scope of prophecy, conflict, and power in its universe and balances harmony with thunder, building its mythos and environment with culture and peaceful attunement but also visceral conflict and roaring theatrics. It treats the culture it builds to us with care and constructs our care and compassion with precision, adding to the overall richness of the sprawling narrative. The conflict isn’t disorderly, but ordered, constructed, and personalized. From armies to stadiums to one on ones each bit of conflict feels genuine and raw with an intensity built by the world. No matter how big or small you know its source and its origin and the connective ferocity that wedges the bloodlust in place between two parties. Take the final fight, Feyd-Rautha versus Paul, the battle for the future of the universe between two warriors of equal spite and motivation. The score fits the scale, and it knows to hold back in the battle between the two. That’s what Dune manages to encapsulate, the range of conflict and how to treat and construct it. Dune: part two is epic, huge and sprawling and equal parts caring and environmental and clashing and loud.