“Dune” is not a painful film to sit through; however it is a boring and confusing one. Films like this don’t have to give you all of the explanation but “Dune” didn’t give me any so I lost complete and utter interest in anything happening in the movie.

The plot of “Dune” is as disjointed as its mythology. It’s about a man named Paul (Kyle MacLachlan “The Doors”), who may be the prophet that a galaxy has been waiting for. “Dune” takes place on several worlds and involves a substance known as ‘spice’, that makes it possible to ‘fold’ space in order to travel from one end of the universe to the other and it also makes it possible to extend life. Paul has to engage in various activities including riding a giant sandworm in order to prove he is the prophet.

The characters in “Dune” are as robotic as they come. Lots of the dialog in “Dune” is spoken as you listen in on the characters’ thoughts so it can be confusing midway through conversation it cuts to someone speaking in their head. The acting is terrible and nobody looks happy. Despite an all-star cast including Patrick Stewart (“Star Trek: First Contact”), Sting and Max von Sydow (“The Seventh Seal”) the film is very disappointing as far as the characters/cast section goes.

“Dune” is a real mess. Even things such as the special effects are not done well (despite having a massive budget by standards of the time). “Dune” has a couple of clever ideas but it doesn’t utilize them in a way to make them at all entertaining. The film flickers from place to place, from character to character, to external speech to internal speech that it makes it a real chore to understand what is actually going on and all the characters seem to so that just makes me more frustrated.