I'll probably still go back and see the film in theater a third time, despite that release.
It's the first time I've been so blown away by a film in the context of a theatrical screening. The combo of Denis Villeneuve's savoir-faire coupled with the fact that my cinema is now classified as "excellence"
(a label awarded to state-of-the-art cinemas in France) just makes the experience... breathtaking.
What really speaks to me about Villeneuve's films, and here more than ever, is that he really uses the whole palette of the medium: image, sound and editing. There's a wide variety of scenes that give me the chills, because his "mise en scène" is active on all fronts. You can really feel that everything has been thought through and has room to shine.
I'm usually fairly critical of recent blockbusters
(and to be honest, I've skipped most of them in the last 6 or 7 years), but here I've got nothing to say... It's ambitious, precise, masterful.
It's ironic how the 2010s promised so many comic book adaptations and other revivals of some of my childhood heroes, and yet the project that finally hits me in the face is a license I'd never approached before. I also find it amusing how Hollywood seems once again to be making the same discovery that a film can end up being good
(really, really good!) when the director behind it has a real love for its subject and a true vision for it... Yeah, what a surprise!