Mad Max: Fury Road - Movie Review

My choice for Best Director at the Academy Awards(r) is George Miller for "Mad Max: Fury Road", one of the best action movies in decades.

Tom Hardy stars as the classic apocalypse movie icon Mas Rockantansky, a man of few words and many bullets. The film is about how he gets involved with a prison break lead by the badass Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron). And that's the plot. There is nothing else but guns and explosions and chaos and destruction and everything in between. 

This is a movie that was great but for unexpected and counter-intuitive reasons that strangely make sense. Who the hell new that a movie whose gimmick is trucks and cars blowing up in various creative ways could be so damn great! Especially when all the luck in the world was set against them (the production was a disaster). But it payed off with flying colors... and cars and fire.

This movie was awesome! The action is some of the best ever put to film and it makes one of the most annoying gimmicks to ever touch Hollywood work. Style over substance. This one of the few movies in history to make it work. 

The characters, their motivations, who they are and what they are after are all told through how they handle the mayhem around them. The style IS the substance. 

There are only a few movies in history to ever make style over substance work and "Mad Max: Fury Road" joins them.

George Miller... holy crap! The action is directed so well to the point that its literally scary. The intensity, the adrenaline, the stunts, the tone, the mood... it was all clear! There was clarity! For an action movie to have clarity (especially in the past few years) is very rare. 

The Mad Max franchise has proven to be one of the greatest action movie anthologies of all time. Not all of them have been good, but they were all visionary, imaginative and revolutionary in their own way. What started off as an indie movie that created the post apocalyptic  has grown into a multi-million dollar franchise that keeps getting better (even though "Road Warrior" was undeniably the best).

My hats off to everyone involved with this film. I can't say I have a single problem with this film. For what it was, it was perfect. And that's why I'm giving this film...

5 out of 5 stars