Mad Max: Fury Road
Caleb O

Review by Caleb O Pro

Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★★★★

Rewatched May 17, 2024

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This review may contain spoilers.

Ranking Every AACTA Best Picture Winner
2015 Winner

For all the bad movies that have won the AACTA, all those sins are washed away for awarding this in 2015. Truly one of the greatest movies ever made. There’s just so much I love—the subtle characterisation of the wives, Furiosa and Max’s quiet camaraderie, the score, the ingeniously simple cinematography that keeps your focus at the centre of the frame at all times (without making the rest of the screen boring), the world building. This time around I was particularly impressed by the dialogue feeling so bizarre yet natural for the world, from various little lines—“I’ve been called to the torture!” to express impatience—to the big ones: “Then who killed the world?!”

But my favourite little line is Nux’s final words. I love Nicholas Hoult. There’s a reason he’s got a tag, and why he was my actor of choice in 2020, and possibly even the reason why I go and watch the godawful looking The Garfield Movie. His work here is spectacular. Starting as this insane War Boy driven by religious fervour, his shift from an- to pro-tagonist is so well done. Even when he’s still firmly allied with Immortan Joe he’s a delight to watch, scrambling about and blathering that his bloodbag helped capture Furiosa. The scene where Riley Keogh’s Capable rests a hand on his face is probably the first time someone has touched him with care. And so, after a lifetime of hearing people scream ‘WITNESS ME’ and mindlessly dying for a man who doesn’t know them, his final words. A whisper. ‘Witness me.’ Not for all to hear, not to carry him into the beyond. For Capable to see him, for him to know that now he is dying for something. Beautiful. 

I’ve already talked in previous reviews about my love for this movie, and I’m sure in the next review I’ll find something else to go on about. But this movie is spectacular, and I’ll never tire of it. 

Devastatingly my local cinema cancelled their two screenings of this (for some reason the distributor didn’t want this showing close to Furiosa release? Please explain that logic, I dare you) so I had to watch this at home instead. This is still an epic experience no matter where you view it though. Now officially ends my AACTA journey (until whatever wins next, obviously).

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