As someone who has no preconceptions going into this (I haven't read the novel and neither had I seen the Lynch version), I was intrigued and looking forward to this. I love a slow burner too, so the fact I was going into a sci-fi film that wasn't going to be all crash, bang wallop like the sensory annihilation of the Marvel films was going to be a plus point. Finally, Denis Villeneuve is simply one of the best directors around at the moment (Arrival one of my favourite films of recent years).
So I'm disappointed to say I thought this was awful. Just so unbelievably tedious, with extremely dull characterisation that I just didn't care one jot for, uninspired cinematography (for a desert film, there's no sense of scope, nor space and silence like the great epics Lawrence of Arabia or Good, Bad & Ugly), ugly CGI and frequent overbearing drone music from Hans Zimmer. All bogged down in hierarchical, military dialogue which deterred me even more from the characters.
A film utterly lacking in any humanity. Really really poor.