Granted, when I sat down to watch this 2021 movie titled "Dune World", I wasn't really harboring much of any hopes or expectations to the movie. Why? Well, from the title alone, it seemed like a mockbuster cashing in on the new "Dune" movie. So yeah, I figured this would be another movie from The Asylum.
First of all, this movie was not a The Asylum production, for better or worse. Although I wish it would have been, because at least then I would have been in for something significantly better than what Polonia Brothers Entertainment managed to spew out.
And then let me just say wow. Just wow! This movie was phenomenally bad. It was bad in every possible way and aspect. From the storyline, to the acting, to the special effects and to the props and costumes. Everything here was just beyond the scope of what you would think would be passable for a movie to see the light of day in 2021. Yet somehow writer John Oak Dalton managed to pen the script for this atrocity of a movie, and director Mark Polonia brought it to the screen.
The special effects in the movie were so bad that I was let laughing so hard. In fact, my son came to join in since I was laughing so hard, and he was commenting on how fake everything looked at almost every single scene that we suffered through. And the robot was just insanely bad; they had a plus size guy in a silver hooded jacket and wearing a kids toy mask. And the CGI effects looked like they were made in an Arts & Crafts class and slapped onto the movie in post-production.
The acting in the movie was as wooden, rigid and pointless as the storyline itself. So don't get your hopes up for any of the performers to salvage this movie as it sinks into the silt. Needless to say that there weren't any familiar faces on the cast list.
Do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "Dune World", because it just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.
My rating of "Dune World" lands on a one out of ten stars. This is by far one of the worst sci-fi movies I have had to suffer through.
