Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: George Miller (Mad Max 1-3, Babe 2, Happy Feet 1-2)
	Actors: Tom Hardy (This Means War, The Dark Knight Rises), Charlize Theron (Prometheus), Nicholas Hoult (X-men 4-6)
	Country: USA, AUS
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 22.05.2015, CINEMA theater, 3D
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic future, Furiosa (Theron) escapes from her clan, and will soon be pursued by the leader Immortan Joe and hordes of followers at the wheel of terrible machines.
Review: I think Fury Road it is the best that George Miller could have done to pay homage to the saga he initiated more than 35 years ago. It builds on the legend of the Road Warrior from the three previous movies to bring us something different, although with some similarities to Mad Max 2, for me the best to date... until today. The story is minimalist: struggle of humanity for food, water, gas and survival in general under the control of tyrants. And for a movie that is supposed to be more about images than anything else, I found that the characters don't lack depth: Furiosa, the Wives, Max, Joe, Nux (hard to recognize when you know him from the X-men series). But more than story or characters, Fury Road is really a visual experience, at least this is how I took it, and it is with that in mind that one should go watch it. I was addicted from the first minutes and the shots in 3D with a camera racing forward filming at ground level, a nice use of 3D better than throwing stuff at your face. After that, the movie is basically a two-hour race with only a few interruptions to let the audience breath. The convoy doesn't even stop when something needs fixing, it is done hanging under the truck while at full speed! I read that George Miller shot real action as much as possible and used as few CGI as possible, I can appreciate that during the amazing stunts and the massive number of trucks from hell, customized to death. I really loved this avalanche of crazy car designs, which is already what people liked in the original movies, and also influenced many post-apocalyptic movies (often produced in Italy) but always with a cheap-looking results. A word about Max: he is not even the main character in this movie, he is very discreet and barely says ten sentences in the whole movie with his enigmatic deep bass voice. This definitely brings mystery to the character, like it did for Conan the Barbarian. I am almost tempted to go enjoy the show once more in the cinema, and I hope that no sequel will be made. As I wrote in introduction, I think Fury Road is the best movie one could have done on the topic and going further would spoil the experience.
Rating: 8 /10