John Maguire on film: Spectacular Dune Part Two ‘has all the intensity of a hallucination’

Less a sequel than the second half of a truncated story, Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction epic Dune Part Two picks up precisely where the 2021’s multi-Oscar nominated instalment left off. The noble Atreides family are dead. Control of the planet Arrakis and its priceless spice has fallen into the hands of the vile Harkonnens. The surviving Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) has joined forces with the rebel Fremen and his love Chani (Zendaya) to save the planet ...