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Dune is universally known as one of the most difficult books to adapt to the big screen, due to its vast lore and high density of events. Despite this, Denis Villeneuve successfully manages to transpose this immense story, raising his Dune into the Olympus of the best adaptations in the history of cinema. This movie is absolutely flawless on a technical level, both from a directorial and photographic point of view and from the point of view of special effects and score. It perhaps suffers from the typical problem of all movies that want to be a "part one", that is, the fact of interrupting themselves without a real self-conclusion. However, even if non-fans of the book might find some aspects of its development a little obscure since some explanations present in the book are left implicit, Dune remains a gem of the cinema of the last 10 years.

What's worse than a movie that shamelessly plagiarizes elements from other sci-fi or fantasy products? A movie that does all this and fails to even build a world in which you feel interest and curiosity in finding out how the story will evolve. However, if the terrible world-building is Rebel Moon's biggest flaw, it certainly cannot be said that everything else is able to compensate for the extremely poor script. Direction, visual effects, photography, costumes are all so aseptic and unmemorable that it is guaranteed that nothing of this movie will remain forged in people's minds for years to come, as movies and TV series have been able to do like which Rebel Moon would pretentiously love to place itself.