Mad Max: Fury Road
Scott R

Review by Scott R Patron

Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★★★★

Rewatched May 23, 2024

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Plain and simple, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is pure high adrenaline filmmaking perfection from the master of post-apocalypse road rage cinema. Seriously, this is some peak shit right here! It’s been maybe four years since seeing this and I’m still just absolutely floored. What an awesome movie!!

Miller by this time has become a master of world building for the Mad Max universe. If you thought the wastelands beautifully composed in The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, this is sure to fully immerse you. Love how each of these different factions in Miller’s epic feel so alive. Furiosa’s tortured mothers of the green place, the War Boys and their fanatic cult worship of Immortan Joe, even that Bullet Farmer has a kind of well established lore here. The dialogue hints just enough at the rich histories and cultures of these different peoples. And when they all get down to the action, it’s really something else!

According to the Blu-ray snippet I caught, this film didn’t start as a screenplay but rather George Miller conceived of the story with five storyboard artists. Painstakingly, Miller and his team of  artists created a 3,500 panels of art for the film. Visuals first and dialogue second, Miller noted! This is likely why the film has such an awesome power for the kinetic visuals, both in terms of action and general cinematography from academy award winning Director of Photography  John Seale. 

And, no surprise here, but the special effects are truly awe inspiring with Mad Max: Fury Road! The stunt works reaches new heights of incredible absurdity!! By the time we reach that climax and our blood is pumping straight up chrome and gasoline as Imperator’s war boys are flying about, Max is grappling with the guitarist mother fucker and Furiosa takes on the warlord herself! Top shelf action packed stuff, with all the nuts and bolts of this art form, not just special effects, but use of sound and editing to near perfection by the crew.

Remains the best action movie of the 2010s bar none, and one of the best post-apocalyptic stories ever put to film! Such an immersive and jolting watch. Put the petal to the fucking gas guzzling metal, and give this beautiful gem a whirl. You won’t be disappointed!! 5/5

P.S. Should've taken Best Picture! Wtf is
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