Gavin Murphy’s review published on Letterboxd:
Mad Max: Fury Road is the sequel or reboot to George Millers 1980s Mel Gibson trilogy and it is AWESOME. The first time I watched this I definitely didn’t get a good read. I could say I didn’t pay attention that much and wasn’t as invested as I was this time around. But the rewatch definitely paid off. There’s so much good but we have to start with the fact that this is one of the coolest and best action movies ever. It’s literally everything an action fan could want in a movie. From car chases to fist fights to gun fights it has it all. Whether it’s weird, cool, or insane it gets pulled off. A big part why the action is so good is George Millers directing and the cinematography. 95% of the time the shots in this movie are absolutely incredible and there’s honestly some of my favorite shots of all time here. Each battle or fight there’s always something that makes you go “WOW”. That’s how good it is. And the color in this is a GREAT combo. The two colors heavily used are orange and blue and each time it’s in the right setting it’s looks so so good. I love how good the world building is too. You get to see both sides of this apocalyptic setting and how things go. You see a great example of Immortan Joes power when people will literally freak out because he looked at them. It’s great settings and giving character. The quick movement and fast pacing is insane. The only time it ever really stops it gives the most emotional scene in the movie with one of the coolest shots ever. The score by Junkie XL here is also incredible. Scenes like meeting the Many Mothers and Going into the storm are cool itself but then you add the music to it and it’s just 10x better. The two big stars of this film are of course Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron and both of them do such an awesome job since both of their characters are defined as BADASS. As sick as this movie is, here are my small complaints. Sometimes the movie goes into like 1.5x speed and it threw me off a little because it felt a little too insane. And as I said 95% of the shots are great, there’s that 5% where CGI comes in and it looks way too fake or weird for what’s been happening. Now I’m fine with CGI it’s just I expected something different or not as weird. And my final nag is that for some reason the character Max does a lot more grunting instead of speaking which was different but something to think of. Nonetheless this was such a sick movie and imo the best Mad Max movie.
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