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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
U.S. / Australia, 2015
Directed by George Miller
Starring Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, 2016
Approx. 123 min. DCP.
“It’s hard to do justice in words to FURY ROAD’s nonstop, breathtaking action sequences. Miller and team are on record as saying the stunts, for the most part, are real. But there’s still an otherworldliness to these setpieces — colorful flares pop across the skies, the weaponry is ludicrous (one guy’s got a flame throwing guitar), the explosions are so bright as to seem downright cartoonish. This is not the dusty, grotty world of THE ROAD WARRIOR, where we could almost taste the dirt. Here, we watch the movie in a weird state of vicarious pain, delirium and ecstasy; it actually takes something out of us. FURY ROAD may be a sequel, a reboot or whatever, but it’s so perverse, florid, mannered and dense that it feels like a wild-eyed castaway in the wasteland of Hollywood blockbusters. It’s a work of almost religious horror and beauty — the Sistine Chapel of action filmmaking.” – Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice
Reviews
“WILD AND UNRELENTING, but also possessed of the outlandish poetry, laced with hints of humor, that rises to the surface when the world is all churned up…MAD MAX: FURY ROAD gathers up all that we seem to crave, right now, from our movies, and yanks it to the limit.”
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
“Every shot bustles with imaginative detail!”
– Chicago Reader
“An action flick so VIVID AND VISCERAL, so striking in conception and extraordinary in execution, that it comes almost as a revelation.”
– The Atlantic
“For all the chaos erupting at all times, we never lose track of what’s going on, because it’s been staged not just with diabolical mischief, but also total clarity. What a movie.”
– A.V. Club
“A KINETIC TONE POEM IN BLOCKBUSTER CLOTHING...delivers a rare alternative to aggressively stupid action movies. At a time of great need, MAX rides again.”
– IndieWire
“LIKE A TORNADO TEARING THROUGH A TEA PARTY.”
– Time Out (London)