Tyler Watts’s review published on Letterboxd:
Is it crazy to say that I wasn't truly blown away and truly didn't feel the power of the movie until my second watch? Trust me I was blown away but I didn't catch the high. I didn't just want to watch it again for the sake of it, I needed to, for it to nail the epic emotions within the epic images and sound. This time I wasn't just immersed in Arrakis and felt half the emotion. I felt everything through mind, body, and soul at full power. This truly is a unified force of sound, image, and acting working at such rare power to deliver an epic and emotionally epic story. So many more images that I thought were just visually powerful have become a tsunami of both visual and emotional power. Tears fell from my face this time just from simple visuals and witnessing this special moment in time unfold right in front of us.
That shot of Paul walking towards the Fremen with the overhead of him after walking though the crowd, that scene I didn't realize reuses the same music from the gladiator dome battle with Feyd-Rautha on Giedi Prime. Even has some more contrast and less obvious grey colouring as he approaches the Fremen. Hell, from every moment and image with Paul from there on out just left me emotionally breathless and flattened out. As a fan of Chalamet since the beginning even I was mesmerized and blown away by the way he carries the change in Paul. What he pulls out here is something we hadn't seen before.
As I walked out the theatre and opened the doors to the real world again, the life around me didn't make sense. Things I ire about this life like the sun cascading through a group of branches or the more regular things like cars following in scattered, irregular rhythm and pattern just didn't make sense. Leaving Arrakis this time around was flat out depressing. Denis is my Messiah and I'll follow him anywhere. Guess I'm going against what the movie is saying but I don't care. The wait for Dune: Messiah will be one of the hardest waits we will have to sit through.
I'm literally like Stilgar any time I watch a Villeneuve movie. I'm just straight glazing this man and he may have all the glaze he wants.
