This unashamed mockbuster from The Asylum completely eschews the mythos and mysticism of its titular influence and instead simply strands a rescue squad on a planet where they become under siege from giant sandworms in a desert sci-fi rerun of Tremors meets Aliens. There are some reasonably rendered and quite ambitious VFX and there is a lot of unusually acceptable sound work for this level of film. The throwback star this time is Sean Young, who has a good time chewing the control room scenery, and Emily Killian in the troubled pilot lead role shows commitment to the task. Of its type, Planet Dune has a reasonable energy and a generally tolerable cast, but do not raise your expectations beyond that.
