Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy & Nick Lathouris
Cinematography: John Seale
Music: Junkie XL aka Tom Holkenborg
Release Date: Advanced Screenings May 6th-May 12th. Worldwide Release Dates.
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From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise, comes “Mad Max: Fury Road,” a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky.
Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.
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Megan Gale as Valkyrie
Josh Helman as Slit
Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic
John Howard as People Eater
Richard Carter as The Bullet Farmer
iOTA as Coma, The Doof Warrior
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The Cinemachina Review
A truly outrageous, operatic, expressive poem to metal, engines, blood and sand, Fury Road is an absolute visual delight popping with color (no bland, post-apocalyptic desaturation going on here) and propulsion – filling every frame with as much information and weight as possible, and with CG used sparingly (occasionally used to enhance a landscape or backdrop); every piece of metal and flesh is clear and palpable. Again, Fury Road is a film partially about the very idea motion, and the way it informs the lives of these characters, so having this film be one of the most fluid and tightly-edited action pieces of recent memory only extends itself to the genuinely bizarre and moving story Miller is telling.
Mad Max: Fury Road, one the year’s most highly-anticipated films more than lives up to the hype surrounding it. With it, George Miller has crafted an insane, propulsive action masterpiece featuring some of the clearest, most fluid action in recent memory; all in service of an affecting, feminist-geared story of trauma and motion.
Saw the screening last week. The plot device and characterization is pretty weak. However, the whole setting and action pieces is done to the the state of art extent. Extremely immersive and avant-garde.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. Watched it just last night and my jaw was on the ground the entire time. Not only the action but you feel for all the characters which isn't something most movies do.
The entire theatre stood up clapping after that screening ended. No joke lol.
The critics are not lying with this one. 99%
Definitely check it out.
Might add that I see this film making more overall than Pitch Perfect in the long run.
This is getting unheard of reviews for an R-rated action flick. Up to 99% on RT.
Also, all of the reviews are saying that Tom Hardy essentially plays a supporting character, with Charlize being the true lead. It's apparently one of the most overtly-feminist blockbusters ever put to screen and has Men's Rights Activists (lol) up in arms.