Who CHANGED the World? Miller did.

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2017)

As fast, exhilarating, over the top and relentless as possible, Mad Max Fury Road is exactly the film that we want and that it needs to be. Visionary George Miller shows us that a two hour chase film can simultaneously be a jaw-dropping work of cinematic art in every visual and technical aspect as well as surprisingly deep and metaphoric story.
Thirty years after the end of the iconic trilogy, Miller revisits the iconic dystopian world he created and inevitably defined the late 1970's and 80's, boasting a new cast and making use of the best modern technology in the way of practical effects and filming techniques demoting digital effects to bare minimum. Despite being a Mad Max- character centered franchise, Theron's Furiosa gets equal if not more prominence than Hardy's charismatic Rockatansky in a film that raises feminist issues left and right despite its high octane macho cover. Miller does this with such effortless insight and balance that we never feel any kind of unnecessary or forced agenda being rubbed in your faces.
Fury Road might certainly not be a film for everyone but its instant classic and landmark appeal is undeniable. Gorgeously shot, impeccably acted and frenetically edited and scored (Brothers In Arms by Tom Holkenborg is one of the best cues in recent memory) Fury Road is an exemplary piece of filmmaking to remember for all the good reasons.