Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2017)

This gets an A- from me. I am surprised at how much I like it! Fury Road is definitely a fitting title --most of the film takes place in a desert. It is very atmospheric. Generally I am not interested in action films. I find a lot of it boring. This is the first time I have ever watched a Mad Max film. Although the action starts right away, it took a while for the film to pull me in. It isn't mindless action, but sometimes it was hard to tell what was happening. It felt like it took a while for the story to formulate. It is frenetic but not in the familiar shaky camera kind of way. The effective dramatic scenes gives it a right amount of balance in the proceedings without being cheesy. By the end, I was intrigued by the whole thing. Then the more I thought about it, the more I appreciate the scope of it.
In addition, Tom Hardy isn't bad to look at.