Dune: Part Two (12A)

The arduous wait to see Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece conclude is finally over. Witness the rise of Paul Atreides in this stunning, epic fantasy of monumental proportions.

Denis Villenueve (Sicario, Arrival) brings us back to the desert planet Arrakis with retinal-searing intensity. The spice rich world is still under Harkonnen rule (Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, and Austin Butler) having brought off a duplicitous coup against the Atreides family in part one.

Paul (Timothée Chalamet) is still gallantly fighting with the Fremen insurgency along with Chani (Zendaya) and Stilgar (Javier Bardem) who want him to be their messiah. But Paul’s mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), member of the occult Bene Gesserit sisterhood, is taking her own place in the Fremen power structure. A great reckoning between the Fremen and the Harkonnen is approaching, and Paul is gunning for the Emperor (Christopher Walken) and his daughter Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh).

If you put Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia and Game of Thrones into a blender, the result still wouldn’t quite reach the jaw-dropping visual heights of this spectacle. Seeing this on the big screen should qualify as the eighth wonder of the world.