Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) by Giorgio D — 07 May 2016

Great visuals, but being a fan of the original Mad Max I was very deluded by the movie. Too much chase and action, go see the original Mad Max and feel the pain of a family destroyed, the need for vengeance in an empty and destroyed world where there is no law.

In this movie I found a lot of beautiful visuals, but they were so exaggerated as to look ridicolous (monkey bikes throwing nades on the truck? No splinters killing people inside? A truckload of dust into the engine and not even a cough?).

While the previous movies of the franchise had a lot of visual chaos too, it was interwoven with tranquil scenes with many dialogues, things that conveyed the story and every new movie was connected to the previous by something: the car, the shotgun, etc.

And it connected with other movies of the same theme too. This one only connects with itself and in the end just seems a casual excuse for a chase movie. I vastly prefer the Transporter franchise or Fast and Furious if I want to see a chase.