30 years ago, George Miller left Max Rockatansky lost in the desert / hell while showing us a Sidney devastated by the nuclear hecatomb. Three decades later he has returned to see what happened to him, but not in a chronological way because time is a relative thing in this post-apocalyptic wasteland where the mad Max purges his sins, coexists with his ghosts and simply tries to survive.
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Year: 2015
Category: Post-Apocalyptic, Action.
Director: George Miller.
Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton.
Plot
It is set in a future in which the Earth, after suffering a nuclear war that has destroyed civilization, has become a desert place where its inhabitants struggle to survive and cover their basic needs. Mad Max is a lonely man for whom life will end up getting quite complicated when he runs into Imperator Furiosa and his group. They all flee from the citadel ruled by the tyrant Immortan Joe.
Opinion
The so-called action movies is undoubtedly at a time when it must reinvent itself. Maybe it's my impression, but a lot of the films that are produced have some standardization. Characters ill-defined and dehumanized that could with five hundred men without disheveled. We no longer have accidental antiheroes like John McClane, but it seems that he has become the practically super powerful of Bryan Mills. In this scenario, Mad Max appears: Fury Road to change that a bit.
From the first minute, the film immerses us in this universe of sand, blood, gasoline, fire, madness and violence. Starting with Max being chased and captured is a good way to get rid of our expectations and be surprised. It presents a victim, a thing in the service of others that is dragged into battle. The character is like a furious dog chained and muzzled, eager to regain his freedom. So primitive that it communicates with gestures and grunts. We do not need anything else to understand it.
The film has a perfect combination between the sense of adventure of a western or a pirate movie, accompanied by images that are only possible thanks to digital magic.
One of the great characters is Imperator Furiosa, which in a certain way is the female version of Max, which in the hands of Charlize Theron acquires its own nuances; the actress brings leadership and strength but also the emotion and weakness that makes the character so accessible. The mechanical arm is the icing on the cake.
The production design and the artistic work in this film is simply impressive, with an incredible job when it comes to creating designs of characters, costumes, objects and vehicles that are wonderful. It is enough to point out characters that have become iconic as the Doof Warrior, that lunatic we see next to speakers.
I can not ignore the soundtrack of Junkie XL, which sometimes evokes the work of Hans Zimmer. XL is in line with that touch rocker fits perfectly to make soundtracks for certain types of movies like this. Their mixtures give strength to the whole and make the images have even more rhythm, memorable and interesting to listen to.
Mad Max gets you to twist, squeeze your hands and find yourself, at times, in situations where you do not know if you want all that visual orgasm to continue without end or finish soon to let you breathe. The movie is basically a two-hour chase. Narrated with such skill that only after we finish seeing her, and when we have recovered from the adrenaline rush, we realize the simplicity of her story. In this way, Mad Max: Fury Road hits the table and changes a bit the modern paradigm of action cinema.
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Score
8/10
Mad Max is one of the best action movies, persecution and dystopia I've ever seen. The kind of movie I want to see again. And no, it's not perfect but it tries. A roller coaster where everything explodes, gallops and runs under the dust. Two hours of total entertainment.