Mad Max - Fury Road

Awesome movie. Lots of outlandish characters and expertly paced action. It's a reeling journey from start to finish, with a great ending. Somehow it's utterly serious and dramatic, while also absurd and insane. Fast paced but good character development through what is basically a straight shot storyline. Beautiful cinematography and stark imagery. And seeing it in 4K with proper HDR was a sight to behold!

I'm a huge fan of the older Mad Max movies, and I was skeptical this movie could capture the originals. But it does, and so much more. Within ten minutes, I realized it made the original trilogy look kind of cheap and chintzy. This is Mad Max in all his glory. Tom Hardy (a highly underrated actor) is a perfect replacement as Max. And the story is the essence of a simple story well-told. Max gets captured and turned into a living blood bank for a soldier of a twisted death cult, run by the truly sinister Immortan Joe. Immortan Joe is kind of like Lord Humungous from "Road Warrior," if he had gathered a larger following. And was more psychotic. Immortan Joe has created an army of suicidal soldiers, and controls the people with regular dumps of fresh water. But when one of his minions, Furiosa, frees his enslaved women (his "breeders) and sets out to take them to a land of freedom, Immortan Joe's legions are in a race to stop her. Of course, Mad Max ends up on Furiosa's side, and joins them in their journey. What all this boils down to is pretty much a two-hour car chase, which is just fine. The racing scenes were always the best part of the Mad Max movies, and this movie is that in spades. You've got people jumping from one car to another, shooting up other cars, bad guys getting run over by cars, and cars smashing into each other almost non-stop. Every now and then, we get a break in the action, but then it's back to car chases again. It works surprisingly well. The only flaw I could find is that the story development is severely lacking. There are so many questions left unanswered. Why is Immortan Joe so obsessed with breeding children? What is the disease that's killing the "warboys?" Why is so much of the Earth "salted?" What is it that Furiosa feels the need to redeem herself from? The original movies didn't explain much, either, but with all the running around, there's room for almost nothing else. But that's okay. A lot of it is implied, and you don't really need a reason to see cars jumping over each other. And I'd also like to add that, even with a shaved head, black smeared on her face, and missing an arm, Charlize Theron is gorgeous. Good movie. Hope there's more Mad Max on the way.

If you have a great 4K TV, this just looks SPECTACULAR.

Although it lacks the emotional depth of "The Road Warrior" and "Mad Max" this movie is still well worth watching for its edge-of-the-seat action sequences and the performances by Charlize Therion and Tom Hardy. The story line is straightforward: In a post-apocalyptic world Therion is bent of rescuing a small group of young women who have been used as breeding stock by an aging madman. Pursued by the madman's minions, including the mysterious Max, who is himself being used in a hellish way, Therion and Hardy reluctantly join forces in an effort to save the young women. Hardy brings much of the intensity to his role as Max that a young Mel Gibson did when he originated the character. Therion turns in an excellent performance as the warrior woman trying to rescue the young women. The writers gave her a prosthetic arm in this movie, which she uses to great effect in some of the fight scenes. The dialogue is not award-winning, though I honestly didn't expect it to be given the fact that this movie is essentially one long chase through what's left of the world. I didn't consider this to be a real problem since the production was designed as an action/adventure and not a philosophical ramble through the darkness of some men's souls. The action is vivid, the special effects are extraordinary and together they make up for the lack of pithy dialogue. Not a classic but for action/adventure fans "Mad Max: Fury Road" is both interesting and fun to watch.

This is the best movie ever I had to watch the first two watch the last one and oh my gosh, it did not disappoint at all

Film ist schon auf Blue-ray rein optisch von höchster Qualität. In 3D und auf großem Bildschirm fühlt man sich regelrecht wie im Film.

one of the best action movies of all time. looks fantastic on 4K

Che dire? Mi aspettavo qualcosa di avvincente, ma guardandolo al cinema sono rimasto assolutamente travolto! Un film che è tutta una corsa (con però dei sapienti e necessari rallentamenti) e che in alcuni momenti ha delle accelerazioni furiose (praticamrnte la prima mezz'ora stordisce): di una furia audiovisiva e di messa in scena quasi Wagneriana. E' come se ogni tanto si scatenasse la Cavalcata delle Valchirie in questo spazio infinito e indefinito, tra far west postmoderno e viaggio nel nulla (sfruttando location pazzesche, tra Australia e Africa). Uno spazio dove si svolge una storia apparentemente lineare e semplice (si scappa, ci si ribella, si parte al contrattacco) ma dove, nell'azione pura del film, emergono personaggi ruvidi, sorprendenti e per nulla banali. E con un nemmeno troppo nascosto discorso femminista, che spicca proprio nella mascolinità del tutto. Forse un po' semplicistico, ma di sicuro effetto. Un film che è una lezione di cinema (inteso proprio come movimento, azione, racconto per immagini e suoni) che diventa quasi un'esperienza sensoriale (e il Blu Ray è fenomenale, quasi a livello di una visione al cinema: ma evitate il 3d, tanto è posticcio e il 2d basterà per stravolgervi). Una lezione data, da un ultrasettantenne, ai tanti, troppo fighetti degli ultimi due decenni. E sì, si chiama George MIller, ha fatto il primo Mad Max (e poi inaspettati film come Babe il maiallino...!) ma aveva promesso che sarebbe tornato....per rifarlo più cazzuto che mai, con i mezzi che al tempo non aveva. Stavolta glieli hanno dati: e mai un budget fu speso così bene.

Loved the movie <3

Perfekter film und sehr gute Geschichte