Summary — Villeneuve turns the unfilmable half of the book into pure momentum — enormous, strange, and surprisingly emotional.
The worm ride alone earns the ticket, but what stayed with me is how patient it is between the big swings. Chalamet finally gets to play doubt curdling into destiny, and Zendaya carries the movie's conscience. The sound design does half the storytelling. I walked out feeling like I'd been somewhere.