orwelled’s review published on Letterboxd:
I am the scales of justice! Conductor of the choir of death!
George Miller chains a muzzled Max to the front of a kamikaze car and sends him and the viewer to the front lines of a War Rig chase that doesn't let up for the rest of the movie. Fury Road seems like the movie Miller's been waiting his entire life to make—it's the apex of a career dedicated to apocalyptic wastelands, gearhead porn, and mental character designs (names included). The action is so fast, and when you think it can't get any more satisfying, it ramps it up another level. We're being chased by a militia of fanatic bald dudes? Now there're two more war parties. We're about to get away through these canyons? Now there's a biker gang. We've reached the end of the journey and it was all for nothing? We turn around and do it all again.
Fury Road is kept to a clean two hours that never feels like two hours. It knows just how much dialogue is needed to invest the viewer without bogging the action down, and the secondary characters are the best in the series. Furiosa and her gang of ass-kicking wives and old ladies add so many great female characters to a pretty masculine IP (big cars, big guns, etc.), and Tom Hardy is an excellent Max. While Mel Gibson's Max has more of a silent, sexy, Harrison-Ford-ness to him, Hardy is more intimidating and mumble-grumble-I'm-sick-of-this-shit.
Just to emphasise how gnarly this movie is, there's an electric dust storm with fiery tornadoes. There's a parade float with big drums and a guitar-shredding, flame-throwing cenobite. And there's a dude massaging his pierced nipples through jacket nipple holes!!! The action is timed to the score, the frame rate changes to up the energy, and steering wheels are religious idols. Fury Road is fueled on acrid flare smoke, choked-on gasoline, and blood-bag King Gizzard albums. It's Slipknot on wheels. A perfect action movie.
I can't believe I found this average the first time I watched it. One could say I was... mad.
orwelled liked these reviews
All
' ].join(''); if ( adsScript && adsScript === 'bandsintown' && adsPlatforms && ((window.isIOS && adsPlatforms.indexOf("iOS") >= 0) || (window.isAndroid && adsPlatforms.indexOf("Android") >= 0)) && adsLocations && adsMode && ( (adsMode === 'include' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) >= 0) || (adsMode === 'exclude' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) == -1) ) ) { var opts = { artist: "", song: "", adunit_id: 100005950, div_id: "cf_async_ffcb2c31-00fe-4a75-a487-812ce03ffeb3" }; adUnit.id = opts.div_id; if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== 'undefined')c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement("script"),s=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.async=!0;r.src="//srv.tunefindforfans.com/fruits/apricots.js";r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if("loaded"==r.readyState||"complete"==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; } else { adUnit.id = 'pw-ffcb2c31-00fe-4a75-a487-812ce03ffeb3'; adUnit.className = 'pw-div -tile300x250 -alignleft -bottommargin'; adUnit.setAttribute('data-pw-' + (renderMobile ? 'mobi' : 'desk'), 'med_rect_btf'); if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => { adUnit.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', kicker); window.ramp.que.push(function () { window.ramp.addTag('pw-ffcb2c31-00fe-4a75-a487-812ce03ffeb3'); }); }, { once: true }); } } tag.remove(); })(document.getElementById('script-ffcb2c31-00fe-4a75-a487-812ce03ffeb3'));
' ].join(''); if ( adsScript && adsScript === 'bandsintown' && adsPlatforms && ((window.isIOS && adsPlatforms.indexOf("iOS") >= 0) || (window.isAndroid && adsPlatforms.indexOf("Android") >= 0)) && adsLocations && adsMode && ( (adsMode === 'include' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) >= 0) || (adsMode === 'exclude' && adsLocations.indexOf(window.adsLocation) == -1) ) ) { var opts = { artist: "", song: "", adunit_id: 100005950, div_id: "cf_async_81e5bf6b-faab-4583-90d4-df56f760644d" }; adUnit.id = opts.div_id; if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== 'undefined')c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement("script"),s=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.async=!0;r.src="//srv.tunefindforfans.com/fruits/apricots.js";r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if("loaded"==r.readyState||"complete"==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; } else { adUnit.id = 'pw-81e5bf6b-faab-4583-90d4-df56f760644d'; adUnit.className = 'pw-div'; adUnit.setAttribute('data-pw-' + (renderMobile ? 'mobi' : 'desk'), 'sky_btf'); if (target) { target.insertAdjacentElement('beforeend', adUnit); } else { tag.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', adUnit); } window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => { adUnit.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', kicker); window.ramp.que.push(function () { window.ramp.addTag('pw-81e5bf6b-faab-4583-90d4-df56f760644d'); }); }, { once: true }); } } tag.remove(); })(document.getElementById('script-81e5bf6b-faab-4583-90d4-df56f760644d'));
