Dune: Part 2 Review
Hollywood has a habit of stretching novels out across multiple movies as a way of maximizing investments by keeping franchise devotees hooked for as long as possible. Rarely has splitting a book into multiple films ever benefited the story, with results ranging from ho-hum, filler-filled two-parters (Deathly Hallows, Mockingjay) to full-blown disasters like The Hobbit Trilogy. Denis Villeneuve’s movies almost have the opposite problem, with so much story to tell that, even with a combined five-and-a-half-hour run time, it still doesn’t quite feel like enough....