Dune is considered by many to be one of the best sci-fi movies of the heyday. Denis Villeneuve’s epic is visually stunning, captivating and sometimes disturbing. The cheap Asylum knockoff Planet Dune, on the other hand, is none of that. while watching hair stands on end with shame. It’s on TV today.
On TV: cheap sci-fi trash turns Dune into sandworm hopping
As is well known, the Planet Dune film company Asylum earns its money with so-called mockbusters, which are similar to big blockbusters in name and genre and are intended to tap into part of the euphoric target group. Transformers becomes about Transmorphers. How far apart the original and the copy are, shows Planet Dune very clearly.
Check out the Planet Dune trailer here:
Planet Dune – Official Trailer
Because the sci-fi trash does not revolve around the intrigue game between enemy houses. It’s about the degraded top pilot Astrid (Emily Killian), who, together with a crew around her navigator Ronnie (Anna Telfer), is supposed to rescue people stranded on a desert planet. They come across four gigantic sandworms, who make their life hell.
The computer effects are cheap, the images are modest and the story is one-dimensional. But to criticize that is to fail to understand the nature of trash movies or mockbusters. B movies can be fun and charming. And that’s part of what Planet Dune is. For example, when the actors make an honest effort squeeze a little life out of their run-of-the-mill characters. And with every (always surprising) appearance of sci-fi icon Sean Young (Blade Runner).
One big blunder on the sci-fi copy of Dune is particularly annoying
Above all, one thing is embarrassing, but then after line and thread. Namely the boring rhythm of the film over long stretches. Endlessly long dialogues revolve around themselves, will one and the same issue discussed with the same irrelevant words. It doesn’t matter whether it’s penalty options for top flyer Astrid or repair options for a destroyed spaceship.
Poor cast can’t help it. The cutter’s otherwise merciless scissors were too liberal here. Or the dramaturgical sense of the author and director is too weak. It doesn’t matter either. At least the dialogue ping-pong matches the sand dunes. It’s at least as monotonous.
When will the sci-fi clone Planet Dune be on TV?
Planet Dune is coming tonight at 10.25 p.m. on Tele 5. If you don’t have time, you can catch up on the film on June 6, 2022 at 2:35 a.m. The sci-fi action has a running time of 86 minutes without commercials.
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