But I stop short of calling it a great movie because it lacks heart and soul to match its abundant energy.
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Mad Max: Fury Road is a fanboy’s dream come true, full of creepy, bizarre characters, even more bizarre road vehicles, and propulsive energy. I finally got involved as the story was winding down and surrendered to the grip of Miller’s amazing achievement. (I saw the film in 2-D and frankly, I was glad I can’t imagine how overpowering it will be in 3-D IMAX.)īy the final section of the film the pulse-pounding action is almost unbearably exciting. The people responsible for production and vehicle design, makeup and costuming, and the seamless interweaving of stunt work and CGI magic can be proud of what they have accomplished. The vast landscape against which the action unfolds fills the giant screen it would be criminal to see this for the first time on an iPhone. It’s only toward the end of the story that we learn what really motivates her. Theron gives a robust physical performance as a woman whose steely determination and road smarts serve her well. It shows.Ĭharlize Theron, game as ever, bears a magnificent name (Furiosa) and the responsibility for helping a handful of concubines escape from the clutches of megalomaniacal ruler Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who appeared in the first Mad Max movie back in 1979).
Hardy has admitted in interviews that he didn’t understand what Miller wanted of him during the long, arduous production of Fury Road. We learn, early on, that he is driven by the desperate need to survive, and that he harbors terrible guilt about the people close to him that he was unable to protect. Photo by Jasin Boland (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Then I realized: I didn’t care about any of the characters. But as I watched the first act, I found myself wondering why I felt a certain distance from the mayhem onscreen. Miller has returned to this post-apocalyptic world for his latest epic and made a point of using CGI as sparingly as possible, so we can see that some of the most hair-raising stunts are actually being performed by humans, in a wild menagerie of imaginatively outfitted cars and trucks.Īction junkies will get their fill, as the two-hour film rarely pauses to take a breath. They exuded a raw, kinetic urgency that few other filmmakers were able to duplicate, and most of what we saw was real, as CGI was yet to be developed.
But even this adrenaline-fueled action yarn has characters in it, and they are so sketchily drawn that it keeps the film from being a total success, in spite of its many attributes.Īussie director George Miller has lost none of the big, outlandish ideas that made the original Mad Max and Max Max 2 (aka Road Warrior) role models for anyone staging car-chase scenes in the 1980s. The whole thing – like the rest of Mad Max: Fury Road itself – is an absolute racket.If production design and cutting-edge stunt work were enough to make a great movie, Mad Max: Fury Road would be the cinematic event of the year. Doof Warrior and his drummers motivate baddie leader Immortan Joe and his army of chrome-loving war boys with a live set of songs such as Claw Trucks, Spikey Cars and The Chase (actually written by Junkie XL), that wouldn’t sound out of place at Sonisphere – playing faster and faster riffs as the chase intensifies, slowing down to a slow chug in the occasional moments when they come to a stop. It’s one of the most full-on examples of a diegetic soundtrack you will ever see or hear, where the music appears to be played by someone within the film itself. You may remember him as “Trimalchio the Orchestra Leader” in The Great Gatsby. The Doof Warrior is played by iOTA (AKA Sean Hape), an Australian actor-musician whose management company pitched the role to him as a “a mix between Keith Richards and a scarecrow”. Impressive work, considering the movie has only been out for one weekend. The character, now inevitably known as “Mad Max Crazy Guitar Guy”, has entered of canon of minor cult movie characters in actions faster than you can say “That Insane ‘Mad Max’ Flame-Throwing Guitar Is No CGI Trick”.
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