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Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong>\u00a0 (2015)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 120 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (intense sequences of violence throughout, disturbing images)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: George Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Junkie XL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John Seale\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 15, 2015 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton, Megan Gale, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, John Howard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It would be great to say that Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong> was totally worth the 30-year wait. It would also be great to say that Tom Hardy (Locke, The Drop) is a suitable replacement for original series star Mel Gibson (now known as \u201cMad Mel\u201d). It would be great to say that the new installment makes the other movies eat its dust. Sadly, none of it is true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As a fan of the Mad Max series, I was elated to hear that director George Miller would finally deliver on his promise of a fourth movie. I was relieved to hear that it got an R rating unlike the toned-down PG-13 Beyond Thunderdome. By all means, Fury Road<\/strong> should have been epic. It\u2019s really not. It\u2019s pretty good but there\u2019s no getting around its many flaws, chief among them its less-than-threadbare plot. There\u2019s really not much of a story here other Max and a bunch of women being chased by a tyrannical cult leader. I\u2019ll get back to that in a moment, but first I must point out that Fury Road<\/strong> isn\u2019t really about Max. The story focuses more on the character played by Charlize Theron (The Road). She\u2019s the real star of the show. Max is more or less in the passenger seat for this loud, action-driven vehicle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0If you\u2019ve never seen a Mad Max movie, you\u2019re out of luck if you go into Fury Road<\/strong> cold. Miller offers nothing in the way of a backstory. He basically hits the ground running with Max being captured by an army of post-apocalyptic thugs and taken to Immortan Joe (Byrne, Toecutter from the first movie) who wants to use him as a blood donor for the sickly War Boy Nux (Hoult, the kid from About a Boy). Bound by a chain and an IV tube and wearing a metallic muzzle that makes him resemble Bane, the villain he played in The Dark Knight Rises, the two would appear to be inseparable. Once this is established, we get into the main story which involves Furiosa (Theron) making a run for freedom during a routine gasoline run. Once Joe realizes she\u2019s deviated from her usual route, he and his army give chase. She carries with her a precious cargo that Joe wants back. What it is I won\u2019t tell, but let\u2019s just say that it turns a guy\u2019s movie into a tale of female empowerment. Max manages to escape Nux and runs into Furiosa who reluctantly asks for his assistance in reaching her destination.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0My favorite in the series is The Road Warrior. The 1981 sequel is brilliant on virtually every level, but that vehicle chase is a masterpiece. No matter how many times I watch it, I\u2019m still impressed. Fury Road<\/strong> is essentially a two-hour vehicle chase and therein lies the problem. It\u2019s overkill. Yes, it\u2019s exciting and well-choreographed, but it gets to be too much after a while. It\u2019s loud, chaotic, repetitive and far too reliant on CGI. By the 90-minute mark, I was numb. The charm of the first two movies is that they were low-budget jobs. The studio gave Miller $150 million to make Fury Road<\/strong> and it only goes to show that bigger isn\u2019t necessarily better. The old ones had actual stunts and fiery crashes; they were more organic and visceral. Now all Miller has to do is create such scenes on computers. It feels like cheating.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m especially disappointed in Hardy; I really thought he could pull it off. He\u2019s a very talented actor normally. He pales in comparison to Mel. What Miller should have done was find a young unknown with a macho quality and put him in the role. That\u2019s how he discovered Gibson back in the 70s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0On the other hand, Theron drives Fury Road<\/strong> with a pretty sure hand. She\u2019s actually quite good and deserves a spin-off movie. Then there\u2019s the villain. Immortan Joe ranks slightly above Auntie Entity (Beyond Thunderdome) but far below Humungus (Road Warrior). I do love that they brought back Byrne to play another villain in the Mad Max universe. I will admit that Miller still knows how to put together cool action scenes. I also like some of the neat little touches like the guy strapped to the front of a truck playing an electric guitar for the entire movie. Fury Road<\/strong> isn\u2019t a bad movie per se, just a disappointing one. Despite the return of an iconic character, it still feels like every other CGI-heavy summer action movie. It\u2019s watchable, but I really expected more from Miller after so long a wait.<\/p>\r\n Mad Max: Fury Road\u00a0 (2015)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 120 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (intense sequences of violence throughout, disturbing images)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: George Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Junkie XL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John Seale\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 15, 2015 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mad-Max-Fury-Road-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mad-Max-Fury-Road-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C918&ssl=1\")
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