Culture news This sci-fi film overshadows Dune 2 by Denis Villeneuve: 2024 is a crazy year!
It’s good to be a science fiction fan these days. After Mars Express and The Creator, it is Dune 2 which has come to satisfy fans of the genre at the start of 2024. This month, a new film intends to overshadow it a little.
Dune 2 and Denis Villeneuve win in 2024
Since last year, science fiction seems to be making a comeback in cinema. If this genre has never really been under-exploited, it must be admitted that it often arrives in waves. Lately, we were able to have the right to some nuggets like The Creator by Gareth Edwards and Mars Express by Jérémie Périn, both released in 2023. But since February 28, it is undoubtedly Denis Villeneuve who dominates the industry thanks to the second part of his adaptation of Dune.
Extremely ambitious, beautiful as ever, worthy of the best films of the genre, Dune: Part II has established itself as the film not to be missed at the start of 2024. This was also felt at the global box office as well as by critics, even if its success has already started to disappear (something not surprising after several weeks of release). Today, the Dune 2 phenomenon has given way to the juggernaut Godzilla x Kongwhich easily appeals to spectators even if the criticism has been a little harsher. But in just a few days, another science fiction film has overshadowed Denis Villeneuve.
This new film competes with Dune 2
If it was not really expected by many spectators (at least not by the French public), the new filmAlex Garland may well be quite a surprise when it is released in theaters in a few days. Baptized Civil War, this anticipation film (subgenre of science fiction) tells the hypothetical story of a North America close to implosion. Following the declarations of secession by several states and the armed response of the federal government, the country that we still know as the United States is in full collapse, and the viewer then follows a group of journalists who try to cover this event historical.
Used to this kind of films, Alex Garland (28 days later, Dredd, Ex machina, Annihilation…) therefore plays on familiar ground and delivers to us this time a film that could well be the unexpected gem of the year. In any case, this is what the first reveals rave reviews who are already doing raise the film’s score to 92% on Rotten Tomatoeswhich is a small percent less than Dune 2. Note that we had also already proposed our own review of Civil War a few days ago in which we highlighted “the fine performance of Kirsten Dunst consumed by her addiction to her profession and haunted by her memories”. To discover this little nugget with your own eyes, you will nevertheless have to wait a little bit since Civil War is expected in French cinemas on April 17.