Mad Max: Fury Road
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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★★★★

Rewatched 12 Feb 2024

The natural summation of everything George Miller set out to do with Mad Max is right here in one of the greatest masterclass displays of action cinema, a completely blank cheque maximalist epic that affords Miller a full lack of restraint. Everything great about the Mad Max trilogy individually and as a whole is here at it's most extreme, the lavish dusty red colour palette of part 3 here is given steroids to create one of the most unique visual experiences, the structural perfection of 2 doubled down and made even more relentless.

Of course it's the action that's the main even draw and it's absolutely incredible. 2 unending hours of stuntmen flying off real cars getting destroyed and every single moment it feels like the actual cast could potentially be seriously injured as a result. It might be one of the few action movies I need to sleep for 15 hours after watching it.

Tom Hardy takes over from Mel Gibson as Max and as much as Mel is missed, Tom's insane unintelligible rantings are comedy gold. Max regresses from the reluctant saviour of an Amblin style lost tribe of kids to a guy who is practically an animal and this serves as a great reset for the character. He very much still wonders into someone else's story and it's very much Charlize Theron's movie, but Max regaining his humanity is a big part of what drives the film. He wonders into Furiosas story almost to her detriment.

Charlize rocks, if she wasn't a star before this she definitely ascended after, instantly holding badass credibility and rebranded herself as an action legend. Now she's in multiple action franchises, but outside of maybe Atomic Blonde, as good as she is, none of those characters hold a candle to Furiosa. I hope we see her again in the prequel even briefly (Anya's gonna fucking crush it no doubt).

George Miller, at this point there was guys inspired by him that where pretty much washed and he came back to take everyone to school. I'm beyond ready for him to do it again.

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