content: Having just read the book, I decided to rent the DVD. What a complete and total disaster.The only two things I actually enjoyed about this were the designs of the stillsuits and the casting of Max von Sydow as Kynes.The story is so compressed that all sense of scope, depth, and purpose are completely undermined. The acting alternates between wooden and melodramatic. The Harkonnens have been transformed into circus [figures]. Nearly everybody is miscast.And worst of all, it's BORING!This movie should have been put on a shelf and never released.