Mad Max Fury Road, where to begin. This is this one of the best action movies I have seen for the relatively short span of my life I have lived on this world for. It's like die hard (yes I've watched all the die hard movies (the 3rd one was the worst)), better than anything that has come before it and has set a new standard in the movie industry for action movies. Tom Hardy does play an excellent Mad Max (yes I've also watched all the Mad Max movies (the 3rd was also the worst)), maybe an even better performance than Mel Gibson, depending on your view of them.
The Story is so basic a child could come up with it: Furiosa steals "breeders" (pregnant women) from Immortan Joe, Max tags along, and they travel one way for some days and then go back and kill everyone along the way.
However this movie is more about the journey than the destination. How the characters interact with each other through out the movie. The character arcs are especial interesting and unique: how Max doesn't talk for 90% of the movie. When he does, it's mostly just in grunts and the rest of his script is only a few sentences long, however the actor with the most predominant role is Furiosa, a women lead character! In an action movie! Impossible! Satire aside Furiosa is a very well written and acted character, a very badass sharpshooter and truck driver with most of the dialogue.
The lore is also impressive, how the world is now a nuclear apocalypse. The water wars and oil wars were the beginning of it, and how that eventually led to nuclear fallout (if you listen to the beginning of the movie you can hear some people talking about these events). A barren wasteland with only sand to accompany you with your adventures. And in this knew era new gods arise from the ashes, gasoline is seen as the fuel of gods, and bullets the way of the world. How everyone wants the best and most epic looking car. In this movie especially Immortan Joe is given this god-like state for having water and a monster of a car. How he treats his warboys as warriors, and like Vikings, are awaited shiny and chrome in Valhalla when fighting on the Fury Road.
Alright, we have strayed to far off the main meat of this movie, the action! It is perfection personified, the weapons, explosions, and cars all fit together so perfectly. How the action scenes are fitted so well together. I perfect blend of CGI and real life action scenes, and even with the minimum amount of CGI the action is so fast paced and powerful. You could feel the vibrations of each individual explosion and the heat that they gave off.
And this movie has a guy with a flamethrower guitar riding on a car with giant drums.
Best movie ever.
The Story is so basic a child could come up with it: Furiosa steals "breeders" (pregnant women) from Immortan Joe, Max tags along, and they travel one way for some days and then go back and kill everyone along the way.
However this movie is more about the journey than the destination. How the characters interact with each other through out the movie. The character arcs are especial interesting and unique: how Max doesn't talk for 90% of the movie. When he does, it's mostly just in grunts and the rest of his script is only a few sentences long, however the actor with the most predominant role is Furiosa, a women lead character! In an action movie! Impossible! Satire aside Furiosa is a very well written and acted character, a very badass sharpshooter and truck driver with most of the dialogue.
The lore is also impressive, how the world is now a nuclear apocalypse. The water wars and oil wars were the beginning of it, and how that eventually led to nuclear fallout (if you listen to the beginning of the movie you can hear some people talking about these events). A barren wasteland with only sand to accompany you with your adventures. And in this knew era new gods arise from the ashes, gasoline is seen as the fuel of gods, and bullets the way of the world. How everyone wants the best and most epic looking car. In this movie especially Immortan Joe is given this god-like state for having water and a monster of a car. How he treats his warboys as warriors, and like Vikings, are awaited shiny and chrome in Valhalla when fighting on the Fury Road.
Alright, we have strayed to far off the main meat of this movie, the action! It is perfection personified, the weapons, explosions, and cars all fit together so perfectly. How the action scenes are fitted so well together. I perfect blend of CGI and real life action scenes, and even with the minimum amount of CGI the action is so fast paced and powerful. You could feel the vibrations of each individual explosion and the heat that they gave off.
And this movie has a guy with a flamethrower guitar riding on a car with giant drums.
Best movie ever.