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"Derided, disowned, and debated endlessly, David Lynch’s weird venture into big budget sci-fi spectacle (having turned down the chance to make 'Return Of The Jedi') is a most fascinating disaster of genre making.
On a storytelling level Frank Herbert’s swollen book, a thinly disguised allegory of the Arab control of oil supply, proved far too intricate and unwieldy to cohere into a sensible film...No matter which, of many, extended cuts you watch the yarn retains no holding logic. Even lovers of the book’s dense arcana — a universe of squabbling aristocratic families, mystical witches, messiahs, and emperors all vying for control of the necessary spice — found it impossible to follow.
Yet, on another level, it isn’t without artistic merit. Story was never going to concern Lynch for long...but he lends Herbert’s crowded mythos with its low-level fusion of the hi-tech and the Biblical, a vivid design. From the red-stained deserts (it was shot in Mexico) to the industrial horror of Harkonnen, to the great worms, giant phallic beasts coursing through Dune’s outback, the film has a surreal grace that draws you in. And the characters, as is Lynch’s wont, are rich and wild and amongst his funniest....as a piece of outrageous sci-fi art, thrilling to its own excess, it is far more of a piece with Lynch’s idiosyncratic career, than he has made out. (Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine)
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