Mad Max: Fury Road
Jake Alda Coffey

Review by Jake Alda Coffey Patron

Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★½

Rewatched 20 Mar 2021

Never have I ever tried to like a movie so hard as I have with Mad Max: Fury Road. This is now my fourth viewing. The first time I saw this back in 2015, I hated it. But I thought maybe I missed something because this was the only movie people kept talking about for the rest of the year. So I tried watching it two more times. Both times I would try to pay extra close attention to see why it seems to be so unanimously loved. I still couldn’t.

About 5 years later, I’m finally rewatching this again, this time a fresh pair of eyes and new mindset. A lot has changed for me in the last 5 years, including my taste in movies. So I thought maybe there was something in this movie that I’d like or enjoy this I didn’t 5 years ago. This time around, I can definitely see why so many do love this movie. It’s fast, it’s filled with action and it has the type of style that’ll make your heart race. But I’m realizing that the film itself is just not for me. Not just Fury Road, but the whole Mad Max franchise. I tried watching the original Mad Max last year and didn’t like that either. I think I just couldn’t get into the dystopian world in which this takes place. And to me it lacks a strong plot. But I did enjoy it more this viewing than the previous 3. The movie undeniably has incredible cinematography and visual effects. And even though I’m a lover of the movie Ex Machina, it a little shocking that Ex Machina beat this movie for visual effects at the Oscars. 

Maybe someday down the (fury) road I’ll try watching this for a fifth time, hoping that my movie tastes will then be changed again and I’ll find more that I like about this movie, but until, this movie is just okay to me. It relies too much on its action to please its audiences, which I typically am not a fan of.

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