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It is a mess of a story cultivating in place of a very weird sense of humor with frantic action scenes and very serious matters of events in history. Something was off in a combination of events, music and editing fluctuating between comedy, sometimes tragedy, drama and action.

The interesting part of the movie, which one appreciates, was the effort to embed the King's man inauguration into a surprisingly accurate historical description of the three German origin cousins; King George of V of Britain, Nikolas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, the one widely considered a moron, and to the assassination of Austrian Franz Ferdinand triggering the events of World War I. Some little details such as King George changing his family name to Windsor from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to avoid comparison to Wilhelm II were also accurate. One was left wondering whether the presented "honeytrap" blackmail of the United States president was really a reason behind their delay in joining the war.

The acting and actors were great and it was a real pity that other parts of the movie failed. Three royal cousins were all wonderfully played by Tom Hollander and Rhys Ifans take of Rasputin was spot on.

What can one then take from this movie? Pacifism is for naïve people, boys shouldn't idolize war, English men will save the day, the Scots are secretly plotting a payback and are behind the World Wars and goats should be really treated with much more respect!

Hectic and a fast forward moving Mission Impossible-type action. The story is typical but good enough "save the world from bad guys" to give enough entertainment. It gets a bit sappy at times, especially in the end with all international agencies being all after the greater good of humankind.

This is an okay adaptation of an old sci-fi story.

Herbert's original was already published in the 60s and is now quite outdated in many ways, and the movie is not able to get past that fact. This adaptation is less white-driven with improved visuals.

The Dune follows the fall, rise and eventual assimilation of House Atreides with Bene Gesserit and enemies. Not that any movie has succeeded to get past the first three books. This movie covers the first book out of six originals, which are then followed by over twenty other books.

This part follows the wonder boy messiah, where the good are very decent and the bad, well, they are physically ugly and violent just like orcs. This black and white chessboard maybe appeal to some.

Villeneuve's version is strangely quiet that is almost sterile. It may have been caused by the lack of narrative or characters' inner voices, which were the depth and heart of the story and the political scheming.

This wasn't Hans Zimmer's finest hour. Not bad but not very exciting either.