'Oh what a day, what a lovely day!'
Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth instalment in the franchise
and its thirty years in the making. Out cast is lead by Tom
Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult.
Mankind is in disarray with
strange, violent tribes ruling over a vast desert wasteland. The characters are
forced to drive across it and are constantly being pursued by the film’s
antagonist who looks like Skeletor. It may seem like I’ve butchered the film’s
plot but trust me the less you know about the plot the better.
To call Fury Road an action film really undercuts it. In
fact I liken it to calling The Shawshank Redemption a ‘prison break movie’ or
Apocalypse Now a ‘war film’. Yes that definition would fit but it completely undercuts the gravity of the situation. Mad Max: Fury Road IS the action genre.
It can’t be bunked in with the likes of Taken 3 because it is action
right down to its core with some of the best set pieces that have ever
been filmed.
It’s difficult for me to explain the epic scale of the film
because I can barely even comprehend how these practical effects were utilised.
For anyone who has seen this film and didn’t know, yes its almost totally
practical filmmaking. That fact alone just makes me grin, thinking about how
much better it looked for it. (Big ups Dan Warburton for telling me). Theres so much action going on and it doesn’t
assault your senses like a Michael Bay film would do. George Miller is an
action veteran and I get the impression that this is the film he wanted to make
all those years ago. He handles the smaller scenes perfectly also, knowing
where to sprinkle in emotion and directing his actors with great skill.
This may well be one of the best action films I’ve seen in
the cinema and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a proper fun time with
real action. Not like other action films where you’re swindled into attending
only to find that the camera operator is having a seizure ever ten minutes.
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