Mad Max: Fury Road – two hours of nonstop, utterly insane fantasy action

Sounds like mindless drivel

Just what I need.

I'd say as long as there's no Binks everything should be fine

I enjoy reviews of any type of thing that say, "If you like [things like (and including) the thing I'm reviewing] you'll love it." No shit Sherlock!

Anyway I think this looks like balls and I have an irrational hatred of Nicholas Hoult so I'll be skipping this.

Watched it Thursday with a big grin upon my face throughout its two hour running time. The action was predictably kinetic and ludicrous (milking mammas, the blind guy thrashing out riffs on his conflagrating guitar), but I was pleasantly surprised how beautiful it was. And not just because of the wives. I also found myself actually caring about the protagonists, especially the ones Max et al meet in the third act.

Film of the year for me.

Disengage brain, eat popcorn....

Make sure you get it with extra artificial butter flavor.

Sounds great, just the type of film I'd really enjoy...

If I was still fourteen.

Another one

anothet two hour video game that I can't play. No thanks.

Insane waste?

"Finally, I couldn’t help thinking that for a society that’s low on gasoline, water and bullets, everyone seemed as keen as mustard to waste as much as possible of each one. Firing live weapons at fuel tankers they hoped to capture, throwing water over themselves when they barely have enough to drink and punctuating their rage with random machine gun fire into the sky."

Sounds like normal human nature to me.

All in all, this movie sounds like fun!

"- Feminist propaganda!" According to

a troll by the name of Aaron Clarey.

But I will watch it of course, as I have seen the first three.

Loved the original

Instantly screaming 'cult classic'. Sequels were crap.

Will not grace this apparent pile of merde with the price of a ticket, not even a video rental fee.

It just looks so bad.

I'm surprised Shaun didn't write this.

Cracking film

I would disagree with Nicholas Hoult's character being inept and although I do prefer Mel's 'I-genuinely-don't-give-a-f**ck' brand of madness to Tom's damaged and vulnerable interpretation I think he also did great.

The film managed to be intelligent and at the same time very primal and violent and the use of practical effects lent weight and 'realism' to the carnage. A great Mad Max film!

Saw it this Thursday. Easily one of the best action flicks I have ever seen. Not as low key as the original by any means, but hilariously fun and stunningly beautiful. That it has MRAs in a hissy fit is just a bonus.

This is what the Heavy Metal movie should have been.

Saw it last night at the BFI London IMAX

Straight off the bat we were pulled in. Phenomenal action and the perfect antidote to the superhero crap I've been shovelling through my gawk holes the past 2 years.

I honestly believed I was watching something original (yea I know, I'm a fan of the original) and something that was 'crafted' rather than 'made.' Totally anarchic and a true sense of fear for the main characters.

Get yourselves down to see this and on the biggest screen you can find.

Seems to be getting a good reception too - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/

Much better than I expected. Incredibly intense. I can barely remember what happened in Avengers the week before, but I'll remember this one for a long time.

Bah!

Tsk! Australians, eh?

Speaking as someone who loved the quickfire audio-visual mini-jokes larded into Road Warrior & Thunderdome I can absolutely believe the post apocalyptic tongue was intentionally firmly in radiation-scarred cheek.

Iconic movies, all of them. Everyone yaps on about the "aerial shot everyone steals from Bladerunner" but how many times have you seen a recapitulation of "the disarming of Max at the gates of Bartertown"? The Hobbit was only the most recent "homage".

A sadly underrated series. This latest one is high on the Stevie Watch list (I never go in the first few days as I prefer to watch without an infuriating field of tiny oblong foglights shining back at me).

See it before you damn it

It is interesting that the "bad" reviews here seem to be by people who have not actually seen the film. Having loved the original movies (apart from Tina Turnoff's), I was going to boycott this one. How wrong! It is brilliant. Far more fun than Avengers 2. On Monday I'm going to Halfords in search of tat to bling out my van. Does anybody know where I get a flamethrower guitar?

for you down voters...

Mad max makes no pretensions. Its a great reimagining of a classic concept and delivers what it says on the tin. Stop bitching about it and give it a whirl. The good old days of 80s violence with a smattering of humour that does no harm.

Location, location

Filmed in Namibia. Go there.

I saw it Friday and I agree with the author of the article that it was 30 minutes too long. Also, the story was boring, there was too much cgi and absolutely no humour. There have been less jokes in each successive Max film, and we have finally reached zero. Where are the classic one liners such as "I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!", "Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!" or "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... Dyin' time's here."? Only Nathan Jones saved this film from being a complete waste of time. In the next installment, I think the script writers should kill off Max in the first couple of minutes and devote the rest of the story to Rictus. Or better yet, put it out to pasture. Some things should not be rebooted.

Know what you mean by the 80s one not aging well. Total Recall is another that could be remade today with great effect.

Watched it last night, in a 500 seat theatre with nine other people......cinema is dying.

Anyway, to the film. Two hours of continuous sensory overload, but its not a "Mad Max" film. First thing to realise is that this is a vehicle for Charlize Theron to reprise her man-hating pro-feminist agenda which first appeared in "Monster". Indeed the whole film is a prolonged exercise in feminist propoganda, with only the women having any degree of characterisation. The women are all shown sympathetically: either as an extreme butch (but shapely) disabled lesbian tomboy who is acting in the guise of freedom, or diaphonously-clad sex slaves, or tubby milk-cows, or as part of a group of elderly biker wise women who owe much to Macbeth's witches. The men are all ciphers with minimal dialogue. Max himself has perhaps five lines during the whole film and is relegated to a supporting role in which he plays little deterministic part - he is simply a poor bloke being dragged along for the ride. Nothing like the Max of the earlier films. I suspect part of the reason for this is that Tom Hardy's Australian accent, isn't Australian...

Theron plays the lead role as a crop-headed aggressive one-armed lesbian. She's female, disabled and LGBT. Besides which her black-forehead warpaint is reminiscent of the tribesmen in both "Apocalypse Now" and "Fitzcarraldo". How many minority groups does that appeal to? And thats the point of this film: to bring live action film to cinema audiences who wouldn't normally go. The "warboys" - the androgenously made-up asexual young men who compromise the foot soldiers of the baddies - are so clearly intended to appeal to the gay S&M market while at the same time giving women something to look down on that its almost laughable. Just for the men theres a naked shot of a mature black-haired woman absailing down a rope, but its not titillating, and nor are the diaphonous gowns of the sex-slaves: in any other film they would have shown a glimmer of whats underneath, but not in this one. In short the "sexiness" of the dresses doesn't work - another result of the overt feminism at work here.

The whole film plays as a pro-feminist recruiting beacon with a message of "look how crap men are, we can live without them". An example is a scene in which Max can't hit a target with a rifle, using up all but the last bullet, so has to concede the weapon to Furiosa so she can show off her superior shooting skills. No, Mad Max this isn't

One last quibble - Therons character is named "Imperator Furiosa". Shouldn't that properly be "Imperatrix Furiosa"? Or is the masculinisation of the title another hint toward her sexuality?

I've seen it twice already, in 2D and 4DX, and will probably go back and watch it again on an IMAX screen before it finishes in the cinema.

The plot is light, but is more coherent and makes a lot more sense than many other plot-heavy films I've seen recently, particularity the disappointing Avengers 2. The cinematography is outstanding, although it is based in a post-apocalyptic world it doesn't use the usual black/grey/brown filter those type of films usually use, its beautiful, bright and vibrant, and a 2 hour visual and sonic feast. I didn't think it was too long, even the second time round I was engrossed in the action from start to finish. The pacing is superb, the carnage builds to crescendo after crescendo and uses practical effects and real stunts and explosions, so the action has an impact and weight to it that you just don't get with CGI.

I can see why it took so long to produce, I thought it was better than any other action movie released in the last 10 or so years.

The eternal question

Should I see it in 2D or 3D?

Just my $0.02 worth...

It's a great movie. But... it started too quickly and I spent the first 20 mins doing the "eh? what? errr... eh?" After that, it all kicked off and I didn't really care as overall it's a huge mad beautiful looking utterly bonkers mayhemic firecracker of a movie.

You could replace Tom Hardy with any generic male action lead and you wouldn't notice. They should have called it "Mad generic post apocalyptic bloke."

It's Charlize Therons movie. I love Charlize Theron.