Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

"The future belongs to the mad"

Directed by George Miller
Produced by Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P. J. Voeten
Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton
Music by Junkie XL
Cinematography: John Seale
Edited by Margaret Sixel
Production company: Kennedy Miller Mitchell, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 14 May 2015 (Australia and United Kingdom)
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: Australia, United States
Budget: $150 million
Box office: $376.7 million

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is an action adventure science fiction film directed and produced by George Miller, and written by Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris. It's the fourth instalment in the "Mad Max" franchise which follows Max Rockatansky, who joins forces with Imperator Furiosa to flee from cult leader Immortan Joe and his army in an armoured tanker truck, which leads to a lengthy road battle.

Cast

• Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky
• Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa
• Nicholas Hoult as Nux
• Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe
• Josh Helman as Slit
• Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus
• Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing
• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad
• Riley Keough as Capable
• Abbey Lee as The Dag
• Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile
• John Howard as The People Eater
• Richard Carter as The Bullet Farmer
• iOTA as The Doof Warrior
• Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic
• Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy
• Megan Gale as The Valkyrie
• Melissa Jaffer as Keeper of the Seeds
• Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellerman, and Christina Koch as The Vuvalini
• Jon Iles as The Ace
• Quentin Kenihan as Corpus Colossus

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is made exactly the time it's supposed to be shot: now when special effects can be such realistic as the real world is it's a perfect idea for a continuation. Races, fights, dunes, dust, violence - everything is on the high level. And all these film techniques (like fast motion) are so impressive that it's difficult not to be all eyes!

As for acting, it's much less outstanding than the cinematography - it's just normal. However, I can call Charlize Theron's strong and determined Imperator Furiosa and Nicholas Hoult's cute and insane Nux the most interesting characters (except speechless Max who is hors concours) of the whole "Mad Max" film series.

Advantages

• Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky
• Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa
• Nicholas Hoult as Nux
• Special effects
• Cinematography
• Music
• The work of the costume designers

Disadvantages

• More to watch than to think

"Strangenesses"

• Nuclear holocaust

Clue Moments

• Max Rockatansky
• Water!
• "War Rig"
• Gasoline!
• Furiosa
• Joe's wives
• Joe's army
• Nux 
• The death of Angharad
• "Green Place"
• Furiosa's cry
• The Citadel
• "Immortan Joe is dead!"

Soundtracks

1. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Survive
2. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Escape
3. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Immortan’S Citadel
4. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Blood Bag
5. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Buzzards Arrive (Bonus Track)
6. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Spikey Cars
7. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Storm Is Coming
8. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - We Are Not Things
9. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Water
10. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - The Rig
11. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Into The Canyon (Bonus Track)
12. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Brothers In Arms
13. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - The Chase (Bonus Track)
14. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Moving On (Bonus Track)
15. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - The Bog
16. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Redemption
17. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Many Mothers
18. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - The Return To Nowhere (Bonus Track)
19. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Claw Trucks
20. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Immortan (Bonus Track)
21. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Chapter Doof
22. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Walhalla Awaits (Bonus Track)
23. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - My Name Is Max
24. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Let Them Up
25. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Mary Jo Bassa (Bonus Track)
26. Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL - Coda (Bonus Track)

Quotations

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Nux: [In the midst of a massive, violent sandstorm, after witnessing his fellow War Boys sucked off the War Rig into a vortex] Oh, what a day... what a lovely day!

* * *

Max Rockatansky: You know, hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll, uh... you'll go insane.

* * *

Nux: I live, I die. I LIVE AGAIN!

* * *

Nux: If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the Fury Road!

* * *

Nux: [last words] Witness me.

* * *

Max Rockatansky: [Narrating] My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy... me... or everyone else.

* * *

Toast: What are you doing?
The Dag: Praying.
Toast: To who?
The Dag: Anyone who's listening.

* * *

Immortan Joe: Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

* * *

The Bullet Farmer: I am the scales of justice! Con-DUCT-or of the choir of death!

* * *

Max Rockatansky: Here they come again... worming their way into the black matter of my brain. I tell myself, they cannot touch me. They are long dead.

* * *

Max Rockatansky: Max. My name is Max. That's my name.

* * *

Max Rockatansky: I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: survive.

* * *

Imperator Furiosa: How does it feel?
The Splendid Angharad: It hurts.
Imperator Furiosa: Out here, everything hurts. You wanna get through this? Do as I say. Now pick up what you can and run.

* * *

Imperator Furiosa: And how exactly do we take the Citadel, assuming we're still alive by then?
Toast: If we can block the pass, it'll be easy. All that's left are his War Pups, and War Boys too sick to fight.
Capable: And we'll be with Nux. He's a War Boy. He'll be bringing us home, bringing back what's stolen, like he's supposed to.
[Everyone turns to look at Nux]
Nux: Yeah... feels like hope.

* * *

Imperator Furiosa: You never gonna have a better chance.
Max Rockatansky: At what?
Imperator Furiosa: Redemption.

* * *

Rictus Erectus: I had a brother! A baby brother! And he was perfect! Perfect in every way!

* * *

Max Rockatansky: How much more can they take from me? They got my blood, now it's my car!

* * *

Capable: We are not things. We are not things!

* * *

Nux: I never thought I'd do something as shine as that.

* * *

Immortan Joe: Everybody has gone out their mind. You're not the only one, Max.

* * *

Capable: What are you doing here?
Nux: [Sobbing] He saw it. He saw it all. My own bloodbag driving the rig that killed her.
[Nux begins banging his head]
Capable: Stop doing that! Shh. Stop.
Nux: Three times the gates were opened to me.
Capable: What gates?
Nux: I was awaited in Valhalla. They were calling my name. I should be walking with the Immortan or feasting with the heroes of our time.
Capable: I'd say it was your manifest destiny not to.
Nux: I thought that I was spec for something great. I got to... drive a pursuit vehicle, for a while even Larry and Barry stopped chewing my windpipe.
Capable: Who are Larry and Barry?
Nux: My mates.
[Points at his neck tumors]
Nux: Larry and Barry. If they don't get me then the night fevers would.

* * *

Nux: We're not to blame!
The Splendid Angharad: Then who killed the World?

* * *

Max Rockatansky: CONFUCAMUS!

* * *

Immortan Joe: I am your redeemer. It is by my hand you will rise from the ashes of this world.

* * *

Imperator Furiosa: Hey. What's your name? What do I call you?
Max Rockatansky: Does it matter?
Imperator Furiosa: Fine. When I yell "fool," you drive out of here as fast as you can.

* * *

Nux: There's high ground, just beyond that thing.
Capable: He means the tree.
Nux: Yeah, tree!

* * *

Capable: There's no going back!

* * *

Keeper of the Seeds: Here we go, girls!

* * *

The Bullet Farmer: Come on! I've been called to the torture!
Immortan Joe: Patience!
The Bullet Farmer: Oh, you stay here with your grief, daddy. I'll fetch 'em for ya.
The People Eater: Be careful! Protect the assets!
The Bullet Farmer: Just one angry shot... for Furiosa. Hut!

* * *

[after Furiosa kills Immortan Joe by tearing his face off]
Cheedo the Fragile: [to the group] He's dead! He's dead!

* * *

[Furiosa attempts to lure the War Boys into a sandstorm]
Rictus Erectus: [to Immortan Joe] She thinks she can lose us, Dad! She thinks we're stupid! She thinks she can lose us in there!

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You may see the trailer here.

Plot: 7/10

Entertainment: 9/10

Acting: 8/10

Originality: 7/10

Music and Sound: 8/10

8/10