I had no expectations of this movie when I went to see it on cinema. I never saw the original movies (and I don't intend to either), but I must say that I was positively surprised by this one. It was action packed with something happening all the time, so there was really never a dull moment, although I think it was maybe a tad too long with all the back-and-forth. The characters were brilliant and interesting in their own way and let's not forget - completely insane - but in a positive way of course. The sheer amount of creativity poured into the production simply amazes me. Everything fits together perfectly. I'm giving it an 8 simply because I realize that, although it certainly delivers on it's promises, it's just pure (but awesome) entertainment, and I generally expect more from a movie to give it a higher rating.
Oh, and don't bother with 3D, it doesn't add anything to the experience.
After watching "Mad Max: Fury Road", I can say I had alot of fun! If I was rating this movie based on how much fun I had I'd be giving it a nine out of 10. But alas my rating system is based on what I feel the quality of the film is. No I'm not talking points because I had fun watching and I just genuinely feel as though the movies a fine seven outta 10.
There are a lot of aspect in the film that were genuinely impressive. The cinematography was pretty great, the computer-generated imagery was used sparingly. There were some parts that didn't feel visually quite real, but for the most part it wasn't enough to take anybody out at the movies and most of all he was just fun it was like if Death Race 3 wasn't awful.
I'm not gonna complain that there wasn't really much to the story because anybody can tell that the movie wasn't really trying to be heavily story-driven. In all honesty, if the movie is going for the cool and fun factor, I'd rather have it be like this one, where it doesn't spend an eternity dicking around in between the cool and fun scenes. In "Mad Max: Fury Road", the story was just enough so that the cool and fun seems didn't feel stupid and pointless. I like how over the top and ridiculous it was and I wouldn't want the movie to be any other way. In fact I hope the next movie goes even further.
Believe it or not I was reminded of "Army of Darkness" during the fight scene with the chain in the struggle for the gun. There are a few things that annoyed me about the presentation of the movie but they were fairly minimal. There are a few of those family flashback hallucination shots they were a little cheesy, and yeah I know we're talking about the same movie where there's a dude on top of a car playing electric guitar while riding to his death. But I think it's important to differentiate between cheese during something fun and cool
and scenes doing something that's supposed to be dramatic and serious.
As someone that does a lot of editing, there were a few things that were distracting and took me out of the film for bit. When slow footage is sped up to make it look fast, some people just the slow footage sped up to make it look badass.
Overall, this is a FUN and ENJOYABLE MOVIE!!!
An outstanding addition to the beloved franchise that exceeded all expectations. With its great action sequences, stunning special effects, and incredible performances by Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, the film was a visual feast. Director George Miller created a post-apocalyptic world that was both terrifying and mesmerizing, and the attention to detail was impeccable. If you're a fan of the Mad Max franchise, this is a good watch.
"Max Max: Fury Road" excels at world-building but could have done much more with it. Few other action films managed to create such a fascinating world and transport you into it naturally, preferring visual cues and little details over verbal-info dumping. Still, I hoped it was going to be a little more than a two-hour car chase with grotesque pageant floats. I am aware that narration doesn't play a big role in this kind of film, but then why eat up two whole hours with the same thing? I was wildly entertained for the first half or so, but my interest started dropping once I realized that it was going to be a round trip.
Madness, total madness.
It is a very good action movie. Not disappointed at all.
The best action movie in years.
Cine Paco: I liked it more than when I saw at the cinema, now in 3D VO. Image, sound and 3D 5/5
was good, action, good budgetm history, seems a rehash of the 2 and the 3. angry furious empress
must be the only one that didn't like it that much
Oh man, people are deluded if they think this is a great film. Excellent cinematography and action sequences, but it stops right there. No narrative, no acting, no dialogue, and a pretentious soundtrack. I was so disappointed. I had no clue what was going on at any given time, other than the awsome explosions and rad costume design.
Brutally bad for me, wrong actor to take the reigns, way too much money spent to try to make an extra dollar.
Go back to basics, it's not STAR TREK.
Great actors to cast but definitely not the RIGHT ACTORS, probably casted because of name recognition.
MONEY GRAB.
It's an OK summer blockbuster. The plot is pretty weak, but if you're looking for non-stop action, special effects and costuming, this would fit the bill. It's not a movie I'd watch again. I know "lots of driving" sounds like an odd criticism, but there is a TON of driving; it's about 95% of the movie. This takes place in Australia unless they changed that from the original, so why doesn't Theron have an accent? As far as I know, international travel doesn't happen in this world. Some of the other accents are extremely weak too, so that's definitely something they should have focused upon a but more.
It's the usual summary - a beautiful film visually, and the concept is appealing but the writing (specifically structure and dialogue) is ridiculous.
6/10 for cinematography, acting, sound and editing... pretty much everything was good, except the key element - the writing.
This film was absolutley visually stunning.
This movie is so not like the original and they way they say it was made in Australia is wrong they moved it to south Africa so only Australian production team and make up and director...and what was with the super models in the desert I turned the movie once that happened so wrong from the original
My name is Max, PTSD Max.
I have be told that I was not in the right frame of mind when I watched this, and I did not get the point. First off I thought it was a comedy as I could not stop laughing for the first twenty minutes.
After that it plodded along for another hour and a half to the credits. Absolutely nothing original in the story, apart from maybe all the strong female characters. The strong female characters who still fall in love and need saving by the men.
Shots such as:
Furiosa looking at the gear lever when Max is confiscating the weapons in the cab.
Followed by the shot of Furiosa actually taking the knife out to ccheck it just to make it really obvious for the people who could not figure out there was a knife there.
The tracking shot of The Splendid Angharad's full belly showing she is pregnant. You know because we had not figured that out in the previous washing down shot.
I can only assume what I will call 'The Flying Stearing Wheel' shot was there to satisfy those viewing in 3D who need to see things exploding out of the screen.
All in all a long monotonous two hours, the corpse of Mel Gibson's career must be spinning in its grave.
One good thing about the film was Nicholas Hoult, he more than showed he could be the next James Bond.
Despite the sound mixing being weird/off for dialogue at parts (Tom Hardy/Max), the engine sounds, action sounds are a treat for ears.
High on action low on story, that's how I'd describe Mad Max: Fury Road. I was never a fan of the original movies and that didn't change with this reboot. Throwing together all kinds of crazy characters and them having them say the most ridiculous lines doesn't make a good movie. How some of the actors could say some of these lines with a straight face is beyond me. "He's a crazy smeg who eats schlanger!" What?!
The Mad Max universe is a post-apocalyptic world that's just too much and has no clear direction. It tries too hard.
And what's up with naming the movie Mad Max and then placing the focus on somebody else? Tom Hardy as Mad Max literally mumbles his way through a few lines in the entire movie and the rest of the dialog goes to Charlize Theron's character Furiosa. The title character is just along for the ride is someone else's movie.
A movie that has some (the CGI is shockingly bad for todays standards) great (physical) special effects, but lacks a story.
Basically 300 except with more orange and in cars. What I mean by that is that the plot is there and it's okay but that's not why you're watching this movie (and the acting is honestly terrible). You watch this movie for the elaborate and unique action sequences.
Nice effects ... VERY LOW story ...
I would not say it has been a wast of time, but yeah ... Its been so weird ... Its kinda like a car accident, you cant really look away and just keep staring...
weird weird weird ... cant really recommend it
horrible movie. Stopped watching it half way through
I always knew that this wasn’t gonna be my kind of movie, but no one is ever going to convince me this is good. I don’t care for any of the choices made. Even the visual aspects, that most people seem to love, are just not for me. And the story is mediocre at best. One big “nope” for me.
A b-movie plot and directing with an a-movie budget.
I can appreciate b-movies, but I expected more from this one.
Most of it was:
Oh no they all are definitely doomed now.
Phew made it at the very last second.
Oh no the fight is not over yet.
Phew made it once again.
... and repeat...
Thinking about it, I would have liked a tv show better, so that the interesting world could be explored more than a movie can manage to do, and hopefully with the long-ass stupid action sequences dialed down a bit.
Meh!
Sometimes I'm amazed about how such mediocre movies can be pumped and overhyped for so little...I mean it could have almost been a decent action movie if it was a little bit shorter, and had at least one tiny bit of developing in the storyline beyond "cool machines driven by freaks chasing in the desert".. All in all beside a great costumes design and props what you are left with, is just some sort a giant shallow videoclip, with a great visual reworking of the post atomic imaginary introduced from the first Mad Max. Oh yes and plus some half naked models.
It's true, after all those useless blurry, hyperkinetic camera movements we got overdosed in the last decades, it's refreshing to see some more traditional shooting with a proper image composition...on the other hand Fury Road to (badly) counterbalance one good thing, need to add something really wrong, hence I have the feeling it will be remembered for one of the worst night photography seen since who knows when maybe the 70s...I mean blue filtering for the night sequences?! c'mon is that a joke?!...in the age of the uber ISO settings digital camera brought even to consumer market? Is really depressing to see so blatantly fake night scenes in a big budget movie...and for no imaginable reason.
I was about to let it go half the way, honestly I made it to the end just out of curiosity...not for the movie itself which became boring pretty soon, but because I was desperately looking for that special something that should have made this movie worth at least some of the praise I had read from audience and critics alike. Needless to say, there was nothing until the end...just you know, the desert...
What a suck ass overrated movie
This move is like a video game where the space bar, X, or A buttons are involuntarily pressed at all times, thus the audience never sees narrative cut scenes. Those of us who enjoy story aren't even encouraged to care as this movie is one seamless action sequence after the other (with the exception of some brief walking around before the main cast mounts a parade of motorcycles). I'm still left with these questions:
Who is Max? What was he doing just before he was discovered in the desert? Where does he come from? Who and what are the images he keeps seeing? Why does he offer to save the group he has joined only a day earlier? Is he a Messiah? Why is Furiosa attempting to rescue the birthers? Would it not have been easier to escape by herself? How did she come to live so far away from her family? Why does Immortan keep the water so locked up? Because it's dry? Then why on Earth are they wasting enormous quantities of it with a waterfall-esque spigot? How did Immortan come to be the leader of his group? What are his motivations for his power? Why are some of his people albino and others red as the earth? What separates them and makes their struggles unique?
If you're willing to overlook all of these things, then this might be a decent movie. But for as much hype as this movie got, I expected a really great story WITH really great action sequences. Sadly, this is more like a violent children's picture book.
wost Tom Hardy waste of time
This was a tough one--a little bit more 'story telling' and I think this may have been great, but to much was left out for their actually to be a movie with any reason--cool special effects is just not good enough for me these days, there actually needs to be a reason for the movie to have been made...
The Earth Mothers restore sanity to the world was a bit tired, the fractured evil triplets were not well developed--Raging Leader, Financial Scum, Super Hunter needed at least two more scenes to really make any sense or have an purpose in the film--to have been menacing. They 'landscapes' lacked diversity--though the Hurricane Alley & Desolate Swamp were great, we could have used more 'changes in scenery' at some level particularly the crushing urban stuff from the first film.
Hope is dangerous, Who Killed the Earth, Haunted by Nightmares of the Past, Drifter/Savior were all simple movie tropes that could have been developed SIGNIFICANTLY to make a movie that would have paid off a lot more.
The Mad Max concept after all these years....is still pretty dumb.
Oh yer I watched this last night.
Memorable and added to the greatest ever Mad Max film list. No.
And where is Mad Max? I spotted only Tina Turner's sick brother...
Wow, that was the most boring, inane, stupid waste of time that I've been through in a long time. A lot of pretty pictures, I'll grant you that, but no plot, no story, no drama, no meaningful interaction, no nothing! Just endless pointless "action" that makes no sense -- kind of like a colorful kids movie for wannabe grownups. I really have no idea how on earth this movie could score an 8+ rating on IMDB.
i give it "2:Terrible" one for Tom and one for Charlize :)
I will not waste too much time writing about this garbage of a movie, but I feel like it is my duty to make an attempt at saving someone from seeing this. So quick summary: No story whatsoever (I'm not kidding), terrible dialogue (the few minutes of it there is), terrible "characters" (if you could call them that) and barely passable (very repetitive) action. Honestly, one of the most pathetic excuses for a movie I have ever seen.
I just watched a two-hour commercial for CGI. What a collossal dissapointment.
The visuals are phenomenal and the action is amazing BUT it was such a boring movie. Had to force myself to keep watching. Maybe it’s just not for me
Overrated junk, with no plot and no play. Waste of time.
I was excited as a fan of the originals. Played the VHS tapes till death and memorised lines etc. Yes even the third one with Tina Turner in it.
I was very disappointed with this as a movie never mind a Mad Max movie. It would have been better adding slapstick and marketed as a spoof called Miffed Max: Irk Road of displeasure.
Many simple little things from the start annoyed me like Max's escape. Super Max? No struggle at all. Also there's a water shortage and I presume food shortage etc... where did all the bodybuilders come from? This stuff is fine in an old exploitation movies but this is supposed to create a somewhat realistic feel of a society suffering. Did I just see someone with botox?
Too much CGI. Takes you out the movie and because of the way the action is shot with the CGI it looks like a video game cut scene at times. Sadly that's probably what they wanted. CGI occurs when they didn't even need it. Tacky.
Gibson didn't even have to speak as Mad Max and he did a better job telling us how he felt than the potatoes in this. What is Tom even saying/grunting half the time? He's took the hollywood male gruff voice trend to a new level. Sorry George Clooney you've been beat.
Mad max 2 was shot in a way that the action felt dangerous and gritty, almost as though you part of in it, where this has a standard hollywood staged feel but with more of it. Odd how some extra twirling around and jumping on cars on top of what they already do in movies nowadays is supposed to amaze us. More slumped on the seat than on the edge of it action. Not engaging.
Where is the feeling of isolation in this movie? Not just visually but in the characters? Where are the awesome natural looking visuals? We get overbearing visuals that try so hard to look epic. This movies looks like a screen saver.
The characters? Awful. What's going on in this movie anyway? Who cares. It takes forever to get our first bit of suspense between the main charcaters and it's taking a mask off Max. Wooo. Keep it on for Christ's Sake! Even the music sucks during that scene.
On the whole this movie crams in as much staged action as possible and hopes you buy into it with the all the hype and positive critical reception. Who did the wardrobe for this, Richard O'Brian on April Fools? Needless makeup at every opportunity... cuz kids love them colourful superhero movies.
Even the most ridiculous post apocalyptic movies have better plots. If you're gonna have no plot and loads of action least have some memorable dialogue or a bit of meaningful dialogue. 150! I just watched 150 Millions pounds worth of turd that they couldn't even remotely polish.
Side rant: I knew that Kermode would love this trash. What did he hate about transformers? Lot's ov CGI. Aimed at a specific market. All action shot in a particular style. No plot and loads of explosions to compensate. Couldn't hear anything..... weird he liked this then.
One of the worst movie from 2015. No background about the characters, bad storytelling, flat dialogs. Did the actors have any script what they should speak? I think not. If you like action and don't give a fuck about storylines than mad max fury road is definitely a good movie for you, if you like stories and background grab another movie!
very long bad chase scene
Seriously the biggest load of poop ever.
I don't see why someone would watch this movie. IMO, it is a bunch of vehicles chasing another and the only thing that happens troughout the movie is them exploding and crashing into eachother - of course, troughout the whole storyline, everything is happening in a dessert to make things even more borring and monotone. Can someone list me at least 10 reasons why he/she would watch this move?!
Going to go against the vastly popular opinion on this one. The originals had this grounded bizarreness to them. Here we have a movie that starts off with the action cranked to 11 and continues all the way to the end without letting up. No character development, no semblance of reality without any grounding. Hardy is no longer the average family man turned hard due to tragic circumstances like Gibson, Hardy is a hard man out of the box. Im pretty sure this entire movies dialog would fit on one page.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I no longer respond to mindless bombast. And this movie is pure bombast and nothing else. I can appreciate the subtext of strong women leading women - nothing wrong with that. But this is supposed to be MAD MAX, not Maxine. Heartbroken.
4K Mad Max and all is weirdness.....
I'm glad I stuck with it. I was gonna turn it off but it gets so much better after the storm chase scene. I still can't get over them building their entire society on the one resource they're most desperate for and the motorcycle chase scene looks like a themed Nitro Circus spectacle. But it was enjoyable. And being on a Nicholas Hoult trip lately, this kept my attention more than it normally would have. I still believe this is massively overhyped though. Some of the effects, even for the time, are really bad.
Probably the first and only time I've agreed with the phrase "non-stop thrill ride". I don't think I took a breath until the film ended. Fantastic.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" marks the return of George Miller to the franchise that launched him into the spotlight.
Tom Hardy replaces Mel Gibson really well in the character of Max Rockatansky, despite Charlize Theron being the star of the film.
George Miller shows in "Mad Max: Fury Road" how to shoot action. There is no "shaky cam", so we can actually see what's happening.
The "stunt work" made in "Mad Max: Fury Road" is some of the best ever made in cinema.
In the end, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is one of the best action movies ever made, side by side, with movies like "Die Hard" or "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".
This is definitely one of my favourite movies, the excitement doesn't end until the movie ends. Even then, you're still kind of left with a tingly feeling.This is BOMB and it's one of the most exciting films i've ever seen. The cinematography was AMAZING and I had to take screenshots watching it at home because it was too fucking hot, it's like each scene was filmed and tinted with one dominant colour. Cinematography and the actual film itself aside, the way they represented this dystopian world is so unlike anything i've ever seen - some of the stuff is so out there, like the concept of man wanting to be more machine-like and using the V8 symbol as their hangsign. Not to mention the unrealistic use of a plastic bodysuit for Immortan Joe which would be impractical but yet that made the whole movie more exciting. The moment something impractical came into the film, it kind of make me think that cinema can just be explosions and action and stuff that doesn't make sense. Not everything needs to realistically fit to 'fit'. It's out of this world.
good movie I recommended to anyone
I get why many loves this movie. It looks great, has a lot of action and... and... I've heard that some people think that the story is strong. Really? I'm all for women taking matters in their own hands. I love strong female characters. A movie can be well made but do nothing for me, and a "bad" made movie can be entertaining. For me a great movie, or a movie I love is one that I want to watch again. And lots more times. This didn't make me feel that way. I might watch the trailer(s) again but that's it. Not gonna buy it. For my entertainment it's 2/5 for me. Hate me if you want. Quality wise it definitely gets higher than that though.
Loved the Doof Wagon! And Doof Warrior was awesome!
This movie is worth the time spended on it
Abbey Lee is so qt
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I really hate the over post-produced Batmanish voice they put over Tom Hardy, It was like seeing an old Chinese movie translated. --I'm Batmax-- ...and the exaggerated color filters, but it's a good movie, it's fun and a lot of action, Charlize Theron did an excellent job... still, I love more the old classic Mad Max movies (except Beyond Thunderdome).