Mad Max: Fury Road
Tyler MacGregor

Review by Tyler MacGregor Pro

Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★★★★

Rewatched Jan 16, 2022

"I'm gonna die historic on the Fury Road!"

I don’t trust a best of the 2010’s list that doesn’t include this film. It’s such a creative, exhilarating, atmospheric, awe insiring, entertaining ride from beginning to end, with not a single low point in between.

The production value of this film is creative, over the top, practical and just oozes personality and self awareness. I love the characters and performances, every one of the main characters is well developed, their character arches are each communicated almost completely wordlessly. I love all these crazy vehicles, props and costumes that look like they’re made out of just things just lying around, I love how most of the war boys have this very theatrical way of speaking, I love how Immortan Joe’s buffed up son is literally named Rictus Erectus, I love the dude strapped to the war band who throughout the chaos just keeps rocking out on his flamethrowing guitar, I love Immortan Joe himself, between his character design, his powerful, booming, Darth Vader-y voice, and just the warrior culture he built his kingdom around, he carries such a powerful presence about him. This film feels like it shouldn’t exist, it feels like an action movie from the 80’s, with a modern day budget and production value.

The real star of the show though is the action scenes. It blows my mind wondering how they pulled these off, between the creative, hand crafted designs of each individual vehicle, to all these crazy stuntmen fearlessly vaulting back and forth between them as they smash into eachother, to the creative ways they fight, like with the explosive javelins, or with the backhoe, to all the practical explosions, crashes and bodies that go flying, to just the incredibly intricate staging of everything. For as many things as it has going on at any one given time, the sequencing is incredibly tight and deliberate, it’s ingenious in the way it takes characters in and out of the action, fits all these little setups and payoffs in between all the adrenaline fueled chaos and manages to keep it all coherent.

My one single complaint is a fairly generic music score, Brian May, this composer is not. But other than that this is pretty much perfect at everything it sets out to do. One of the 2010s’ undisputed best.

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