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Dune

1984

David Lynch

Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Patrick Stewart ...

6.3

43,985

Sci-Fi. Action. Adventure. Fantasy Political ripples are caused when the Padishah Emperor hands ownership of the planet Arrakis from the House of Harkonnen and to their bitter enemies the Atreides family. Arrakis or ‘Dune’ is a desert planet and source of the all-important drug melange or ‘spice’, which is used by the Guild Navigators to warp space and travel from world to world. But the move is only a ruse and the Emperor sends his personal army to help the Harkonnens ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The plot of 'Dune' is perilously overloaded, as is virtually everything else about it (...) Too many of the fancier touches backfire"	NEG
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"It is a movie of often staggering visual power, the most ambitious science fiction film since '2001'; it's also stupefyingly dull and disorderly."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Kirk Ellis The Hollywood Reporter	"Not the masterpiece its adherents have hoped for — but neither is it the disaster its detractors have claimed (...) The movie works best at its most sinister"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A most fascinating disaster of genre making (...) Even lovers of the book’s dense arcana (...) found it impossible to follow (...) It isn’t without artistic merit (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[Lynch lets] the narrative strangle itself in unnecessary complications (...) The problem is that the imagery (...) isn't rooted in any story impulse, and so its power dissipates quickly."	NEG
United States	Variety	"Visually unique and teeming with incident, David Lynch's film holds the interest due to its abundant surface attractions but won't (...) create the sort of fanaticism [of the novel]."	NEU

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