Generous millionaire crazy friend invites you to a private tropical paradisiac island while you’re in the middle of a crisis involving your job and your significant other, who is your job partner. When you arrive on the island, your friend gets kidnapped and you have to rescue him and find out who’s behind it all. In the end, you do that and get a $13M gift from your friend, but then it gets stolen by the guy you made fun of at the beginning.

Warning: may contain spoilers.

Going back to the world of the Lord of the Rings was fun.

I don’t remember connecting with many of the characters during season 1, except for the Stranger and Prince Durin, but in season 2 I felt closer to several of them, including Galadriel.

The Numenor story, including the Queen, Isildur and company continued to be a turn-off, I guess because of the arrogance of most characters, and lack of connection with the cast. That made the otherwise likeable Elendil, feel out of place. I kept telling myself, if I were Elendil I would get out of here. I’m not like any of them.

I loved the previous Dune movie. It had a unique and detailed atmosphere that transported me far away and absorbed my attention completely. Dune: Part Two is more of the same, which is what I was hoping.

The soundtrack and sound effects are, like in the first movie, out of this world and my favorite part. The combination of instruments that you don’t frequently hear in movies, like bagpipes, in an alien world adds so much to the feeling of distance.