'Dune: Part Two' review: Spectacular spice-powered sci-fi

This Chosen One actually doesn't mind sand, unlike a certain one from another sci-fi saga. — Photos: Handout

There is a moment late in Denis Villeneuve’s sweeping sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, when the camera lingers on a hand emerging out of desert sand, forming into a fist.

It’s a small but apt visual metaphor for this sequel’s story, written by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, which takes all of the foundational exposition carefully laid in Dune: Part One, and kicks the plot of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel into spice-powered motion.