cheesy

drfraud-1

Frankly, after watching The Dune mini series, I didn't think much of this sequel at all. The cast was pretty bad, awful acting, somewhat unbelievable characters, cheesy accents. Visuals were disturbingly cheap. I think Babylon 5 used the same CGI effects in 1996. Extremely poorly textured models, very bad green screen integration, bad costumes and makeup. Although the series follows closely the storyline of the book, I think sometime one has to deviate from the story in order to make a movie a bit more believable. Unfortunately, what worked in the book, did not work in the movie. Of all things in particular, the progression is not smooth and many scenes feel disjointed and out of place. Overall, this felt like a very amateur adaptation of a great book, at least in my opinion. Then again, I am probably a bit spoiled by Peter Jackson's LOTR adaptation and expect everything to be on par with it.

Overall, I give this 5/10. Mostly for low quality of everything.

score 5/10

drfraud-1 7 March 2007

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