Need for Speed on ecstasy

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2016)

Fury Road, oh Fury Road. Eye-popping, adrenaline pumping, best action movie I've ever seen, I think.
I wasn't expecting much of it, as I'm not fond of remakes and really love the old trilogy (I wasn't aware it was the same director). I'm not fond of brainless blockbusters either, and already the trailer told this wasn't gonna be a brainy or profound story. I went to the cinema more out of curiosity, and boy that was one god decision. That is a movie that ONLY works on a giant screen with a blaster sound system. And the thing is - this movie doesn't need a scenario. It is BEYOND scenarios. And it's amazing how you stop looking for things to make sense after two minutes of movie.
The aesthetics are gorgeous, the characters have style, the music is beyond the mind. This movie starts extremely fast, and then it just goes faster and faster and faster, and if you let it reach you, you just tag along and it works and you just get dragged through the heated desert. The film is one huge action scene, everything goes in one fast-forwarding flow, probably thanks to Miller's wife, Margaret Sixel, doing an awesome job at editing it. I would just stare at the screen with wide opened eyes, gaping to not miss a thing, almost falling from my seat, mouth opened in a crooked smile that stammered " ... -what?the?F***???"
There are a lot of thing that are weird, feel weird, possibly ridiculous in this movie, that literally scream "Let's do this, I want to, we'll just do this, because I can". It's so over-the-top that I burst out in laughter a few times. But the rhythm is so intense, the car chase so fast and everything so bizarre and absurd that you just shake your head laughing incredulously in admiration at such spunk. It's bad ass, it's rock'n'roll, it's exhilarating and galvanizing, it's nonsensical and furious and extreme. This movie is like playing Need for Speed on ecstasy. It's like surfing on a raving wave of fire while blasting a fully loaded Kalaschnikov. It's awesome. I absolutely loved it.