It’s difficult to talk about Mad Max: Fury Road without swearing.Watch, i’ll try it – Mad Max: Fury Road is f**king nuts. Mad Max: Fury Road is a crazy big bastard of a movie. Mad Max: Fury Road kicks all of the ass. See? Not many films that are released these days produce such a primal reaction. The most extreme reactions recent movies tend to elicit range from sheer boredom to chin-stroking approval but not pure exhilaration. Fury Road is without doubt the best English language action film since The Matrix.
I won’t go into the story too much as firstly I don’t want to spoil anything, and secondly because there isn’t a huge amount of plot to it. Our eponymous hero Max Rockatansky is trying to survive in a post apocalyptic wasteland while essentially losing his mind when he’s caught up in an action packed thrill ride involving an evil warlord, a group of escaping women, a big rig, and an army of crazed psychotic road warriors. Max teams up with the bad-ass Imperator Furiosa in what boils down to a two hour car chase that’s unlike anything you’ll have ever seen on the big screen.
To most people, including me, ‘two hour car chase’ sounds like it could become incredibly tedious but not only does Fury Road avoid this description, it actually transcends the term of ‘action flick’ and creates something that will punch you in the retinas and drop-kick your brain. Mad Max creator and director George Miller has created a film that always gives the viewer something beautiful to look at. Whether it’s the black and and white body paint of the warboys, the rictus grin of Immortan Joe or the Hieronymus Bosch painting come to life of the sandstorm scene, there’s always an image that catches the eye. This makes the kinetic violence not only riveting but also aesthetically magnetic
The cast is great too. Tom Hardy ably fills Mel Gibson’s shoes as Max, giving him the same weary, muscular, ordinary guy surviving extraordinary circumstances character. Max isn’t your standard hero, he is fueled by guilt, desperation, and the basic will to survive but this doesn’t stop his innate humanity shining through when the situation becomes dire. He is more than matched by Charlize Theron as Furiosa, the driver of the movie’s iconic big rig (almost a character itself, it even appears to breathe at one point), and the rest of the excellent freaks and weirdos that add texture to the story.
To put it simply – I loved Mad Max: Fury Road and really want to see it again. In many ways it’s the anti-Michael Bay movie, with the action being injected with slivers of story instead of the other way round. Fury Road is punk rock, it’s metal, it’s everything cool about violent films you’ll see in eons. If you want to experience a piece of cinema that has been prepared with love by the man who created the mythology then you would be mad not to go see Fury Road.
9/10
Have you seen Mad Max: Fury Road? Have you ever been involved in an action-packed car chase through a desert? Have you ever set up a human milking program? Let me know in the comments below.
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Great review. Absolutely loved that crazy film. That flame thrower guitar playing man was something else!
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Love the SQI as always! 🙂 Great review, dude. We’re in total agreement on this movie! I love when you’re awesome enough to agree with me. 😉 I now must get back to my human milking program…
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FUCK YEAH!
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I want to see this soooo bad!! I’m going to be the lat person in the world to watch it. Hopefully I’ll see it this weekend.
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Sort it out Mel, go see it soon!
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I totally agree with the Geek Mind comments above! This film made me giddy with excitement. I couldn’t believe what I was watching … incredible.
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– Fury Road is without doubt the best English language action film since The Matrix.
Haven’t you seen A Good Day to Die Hard?
P.S. Great review and great movie
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Great review, this movie blew my socks off.
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Me too! Can’t wait to see it again
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Same here.
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Hi Mikey! I just posted my thoughts on this too, and like Vinnie said, it blew my socks off! I didn’t I’d love it as much as I did but I’m glad that’s the case. Will definitely see it again, hopefully in a theater w/ Dolby Atmos, that music bloody fantastic!
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LOL. That SQI is amazing. Excellent review, Mike! I love reading reviews where people are clearly psyched about what they just saw! Makes me happy. 🙂 I think proclaiming Fury Road the best English language movie since The Matrix MIGHT be a bit of a stretch…but I did really, really like it. It’s absolutely bananas in the best kind of way. It actually made me think of your write-up about women in action movies since Furiosa is basically the Full Metal Bitch of this summer. Nice to have another one of those. Girl power! 😉
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Thanks Cara 🙂 you’re right about Furiosa, she’s a total asskicker. A bit like you!
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LOL. Oh, you sweet talker, you…
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Awesome review!
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Thanks Abbi!
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As an old school Mad Max fan I was sceptical about Fury Road, but after reading your review, colour me excited!
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I think you’ll love it if you liked Mad Max 2
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Great review. Who would have thought this would have been this good?
Just fun bombastic film from start to finish 😀
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This movie was freaking fantastic! Awesome review, as always (though I am reading way too little at the moment)!
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