Denis Villeneuve takes as much if not more influence from Lawrence of Arabia and Incendies as he does from Star Wars and Dune Part 2 is all the better for it. Where Lynch latched on to the effects of the spice and "the sleeper must awaken", Villeneuve runs with religion and the illusion of control and power and the ideas are just as heady as the visuals and set pieces. Heck, the set pieces rarely dominate the screen as they do in modern blockbusters, they move the story along but they aren't goals in and of themselves.

It's a bit less imaginative than Lynch's version, and Alicia Witt's Alia is much more memorable than Villeneuve's substitution of Anya Taylor-Joy, but it only really fails to capture potential rather than any real missteps.