It's official. Denis Villenueve, with this film, has become my favorite director to do it. Not only did he see the very miniscule flaws with the first film and improve upon them, but I would honestly say he saw the flaws in the original, brilliant, genre making book and decided he could do better. And you know what? I say this as someone who has Dune in my top science fiction books of all time. He DID IT. Somehow, some way, he took an already masterful work of fiction and improved on it, bringing it to life with such justice and love that this will go down as one of, if not the best on screen adaptations of anything. EVER. Now to gush. Everything about this film is top notch just absolutely brilliant. Zimmer's crew somehow improved upon their already amazing score from the first film and genuinely might have made my favorite film score ever, maybe the best film score ever if I'm being honest. Greig Fraser’s and his team are genuinely marvelous with their work of the camera, there are some moments in this film that genuinely made me drop my jaw not only in how gorgeous they were, but how masterfully shot and framed and just well made they were. The performances all around were so impactful. Rebecca Ferguson steals quite a few scenes as Lady Jessica, and her performance was crucial to how the film portrays a certain side of the story, and she does excellent at it. Austin Butler somehow gave an all time villain performance as Feyd-Rautha, which is so amazing to see as someone who was slightly worried about his casting, I shouldn't have been. He brings a menace and unhingedness to the character that works perfectly. Timothee Chalamet bring the character of Paul Muad'dib Atreides to life literally in a perfect way. His naivitee at the beginning of the film and seeing him grow, love, change, hate, all of it works so perfectly, especially near the end. It's truly magnificent and deserving of insane praise. But, the real star, the actress who not only brings her character to life, but changes her for the better, is Zendaya as Chani. She brings so much life and love and pain to her character that wasn't there in the original text, and thanks to her performance as well as the amazing script by Villenueve and Jon Spaihts really eccentuate her importance and how well defined of a character she could and should be. And Zendaya brings it all. Her love, hate, fear, all of it comes across so insanely well and I really hope she gets the praise she deserves when next years award season comes around. Overall this movie is brilliant and heartbreaking and overpowering and a genuinely perfect adaptation of the original novel.