Dune Warriors
Alysa Guillama
The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.
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After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water.Dune Warriors featuring David Carradine and Rick Hill is streaming with subscription on Philo, streaming with subscription on fuboTV, free on Tubi, and 6 others. It's an Action & Adventure and Science Fiction movie with a low IMDb audience rating of 4.0 (561 votes).
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If you've had enough of Congress, try this - a desert planet, warring civilizations, spice and sandworms. That was the recipe for the epic sci-fi film "Dune." And three years ago, it drew pandemic-weary crowds back to theaters, even though the film was simultaneously available on streaming. Well, now comes "Dune: Part Two," exclusively in cinemas, and critic Bob Mondello says it will more than fill the largest possible screen.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: As grand as the world building was in the original "Dune," with desert vistas that rivaled "Lawrence Of Arabia" and dragonfly helicopters caught in mile-high sandstorms, you quickly realize in "Part Two" that filmmaker Denis Villeneuve was still holding something back visually.
MONDELLO: At the end of 2 1/2 hours of intergalactic politics and spirituality, he'd given us just a quick glimpse of the monsters that make life on the desert planet Arrakis so precarious - giant sandworms with open maws that can swallow a house.
MONDELLO: This time they're central. And Paul Atreides, an interloper from the stars who disappeared when assassins destroyed his family, has been training for his first encounter with one. He cast his lot with the planet's indigenous nomads, known as Fremen, and they've shown him how to mount a worm as if he's leaping aboard a carnivorous freight train. If he fails, says Javier Bardem's Stilgar, he dies.
MONDELLO: He goes out alone on the sands, planting a mechanical thumper whose vibrations will call a worm. And soon, on the horizon, a faraway sand dune explodes into powder, and what sounds like an underground thunderstorm approaches.
MONDELLO: Not that big, mutters Stilgar, as Timothee Chalamet's Paul runs across the top of the dune with grappling hooks and leaps. For long minutes, with wind and sand lashing him and bone-rattling Dolby thudding against us, he'll struggle to right himself. And whatever doubts you had going in about the wisdom of trying to tame Frank Herbert's massive sci-fi novel for the screen will evaporate. It was always a gamble. The pandemic almost squelched the first film, and there was serious doubt whether Villeneuve would get to finish the novel's story.
MONDELLO: He also sees fundamentalism and holy wars, genocide, colonialist nuclear weapons, all of it linked by the filmmaker to battles on a "Lord Of The Rings" scale. Tens of thousands of onlookers in a massive, fascist arena watching a hairless, chalk-white psychotic prince played by Austin Butler...
MONDELLO: Frank Herbert wrote six novels set in the "Dune" universe. Given the nuanced, complicated and richly cinematic way "Dune: Part Two" handles the conclusion of this first one, it would be hard not to hope Villeneuve gets a crack at least a couple more.
Now, as theatres are starting to fill up again, I chose to end this long streak with Denis Villeneuve, undoubtedly one of the best directors in Hollywood today. My rekindled infatuation with Timothe Chalamet also had a part to play in my decision.
The film is partially adapted from Frank Herbert's 1965 novel of the same name, which is considered to be one of the most influential science fiction works of all time and paved the way for future sci-fi franchises like Star Wars.
Yet, for such an important book series, Dune has not enjoyed the mainstream acclaim of its derivative successors. The book maintained a niche fan following since its publication due to the dense plot and richness of detail. Dune, however, is infamous for being immensely difficult to translate on screen. David Lynch tried once, only for his 1984 attempt to bomb at the box office.
Needless to say, Denis Villeneuve had a gigantic challenge at hand, much like Peter Jackson's attempt at adapting The Lord of the Rings trilogy. For someone who has read none of these books, I believe Villeneuve succeeded in making the universe of Dune sufficiently accessible for novice viewers.
The story follows Paul Atreides, played by Chalamet, who is thrust at the center of the multi-planetary version of a geopolitical conflict. House Atreides, where Paul belongs, is set up against House Harkonnen in the fight over Arrakis, a desert planet much coveted for its "spice," an important resource that fuels space and time travel. Meanwhile, both of the rival houses must deal with the native people of Arrakis, the Fremen, whose warriors strive to defend their planet from the imperial encroachers.
Does the plot sound like an allegory of colonialism and environmental damage due to fossil fuel extraction? Yes, it does. Being something of a postcolonial theory geek, I enjoyed picking up on these themes.
There are plenty of other things to enjoy about Dune. The dynamic between Paul and his warrior-priestess mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), was well-crafted and different from most heroic arcs. Without giving too much away, Paul takes more after his mother than his father, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), which is unlike the common narrative of the son following in his father's footsteps.
Both Chalamet and Ferguson shine in their performances. Honourable mention goes to Sharon Duncan-Brewster, who plays Dr. Liet-Kynes, an ecologist who helps the Atreides to navigate Arrakis. Zendaya, who plays the Fremen warrior Chani, has much less of a screen presence than I expected, but her role is hinted to be more significant in the second part of the movie, if it (hopefully) gets made.
Viewers who have not read the books might struggle to understand some of the plot elements. In addition, Dune is not as action-heavy as a typical sci-fi film, so you might be disappointed if you expect a bombardment of explosions and fight sequences, not that I'm complaining. That being said, Villeneuve did his best in translating the book to film as effectively as possible, and thus, in my opinion, Dune is a real treat to the eyes and ears.
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