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Title: Lackluster DUNE has poor acting and direction
Review: I was hoping for an epic with compelling characters, special effects and script. Unfortunately this is a version that went bad from the beginning. Compare Alec Newman with Kyle MacLachlan in the scene with the pain box. Alec is barely registering any emotion while Kyle is barely able to hold it together. It's a great introduction in what is to come later. This is pretty much how the whole production feels. The acting is stiff (William Hurt is terrible as Duke Leido), direction is very slowly paced, cheap special effects.Even the music in Lynch's version has a driving theme that's swirls into the passion of the attack with the Freman atop the worms. Fantastic.Lynch's version is far from perfect and I definitely prefer the version without the narration. Sci-Fi channel - please do better next time.
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