Out of the original trilogy Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) was the best one out of the three, with the first film in the franchise Mad Max (1979) being a good revenge film, and then there is the third film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) which I though was ok but the weakest in the original trilogy; so, doing a follow-up thirty years later after the last one got me interested on how director George Miller was going to expand on the Mad Max world, and after watching it, I will say that this film was excellent. The follow-up Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was a fun and fast paced action film with outstanding performances, amazing action sequences, great looking practical and special effects, cool stunts, beautiful cinematography, nice camera work, and exceedingly small subtle uses of CGI; this film does feel like a long car chase, but the entire chase was investing and thrilling, with there also being moments where you can catch your breath and learn a bit more about the characters and their motivations for why they are currently doing what they are doing.
Max played by Tom Hardy was great and he was cool to watch, with him not having that many lines of dialogue, and he goes from being captured by this tyrannical ruler to teaming up with new character Furiosa, with her he gradually learns to work together with other people again since he has been a loner the past two films; Mel Gibson was good as Max in the original trilogy, and with this follow-up, Tom Hardy did a great job as the new Max. New character Furiosa played by Charlize Theron was cool and just great to watch, with her rebelling against this tyrannical ruler and being in search of her homeland with the aid of female prisoners and the drifter Max; she was an awesome character and you occasionally learn more about her and how everything starts to affect her, it was also just fun to watch Furiosa and Max work together and trying to survive this long car chase and these other crazy characters. Lastly, the film has a lot of weird and crazy other characters, like Nicholas Hoult as Nux who starts out working for the villain but eventually helps the main characters once he learns to be on his own, and to not be pushed around and told to do wrong things.
The tyrannical ruler villain named Immortan Joe played by Hugh Keays-Byrne was a very entertaining and crazy character who has followers, lots of green life, and water which he tends to keep from other people, along with him using another resource known as gasoline, which is in a supposed tanker the character Furiosa is driving around in throughout the film; he was insane in the action sequences and there was just lots about this character that made him very entertaining to watch throughout the film. The cinematography is spectacular with-it having lots of wide shots of the cars driving on this desert wasteland read or people just walking through the wasteland going from place to place, and the camera work was great with lots of tracking shots, fast movements, and fitting close ups; the action sequences were fantastic with great practical and special effects, amazing stunts, and an intense long car chase that I was full invested in. Lastly, I will just say that though this film feels like a long car chase, there are scenes where we learn about the two lead characters and their motivations, which was nice to see, and it helped make the film more interesting; I will also add that how the villain lives in this world is interesting along with him having a story that is also interesting to know about.
The follow-up Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was a fun and fast paced action film with outstanding performances, amazing action sequences, great looking practical and special effects, cool stunts, beautiful cinematography, nice camera work, and exceedingly small subtle uses of CGI; this film does feel like a long car chase, but the entire chase was investing and thrilling, with there also being moments where you can catch your breath and learn a bit more about the characters and their motivations. I liked this film more than the other three films before this, though those films are not bad and I do like them, I liked this more mostly because this film was a fast-paced action film that blew me away while watching; this is more than a worthy follow-up to the previous three Mad Max films, fans of the franchise will love this movie and casual moviegoers will love this film, which is why I highly recommend watching this if you have seen the others and if you love fun action movies.
Max played by Tom Hardy was great and he was cool to watch, with him not having that many lines of dialogue, and he goes from being captured by this tyrannical ruler to teaming up with new character Furiosa, with her he gradually learns to work together with other people again since he has been a loner the past two films; Mel Gibson was good as Max in the original trilogy, and with this follow-up, Tom Hardy did a great job as the new Max. New character Furiosa played by Charlize Theron was cool and just great to watch, with her rebelling against this tyrannical ruler and being in search of her homeland with the aid of female prisoners and the drifter Max; she was an awesome character and you occasionally learn more about her and how everything starts to affect her, it was also just fun to watch Furiosa and Max work together and trying to survive this long car chase and these other crazy characters. Lastly, the film has a lot of weird and crazy other characters, like Nicholas Hoult as Nux who starts out working for the villain but eventually helps the main characters once he learns to be on his own, and to not be pushed around and told to do wrong things.
The tyrannical ruler villain named Immortan Joe played by Hugh Keays-Byrne was a very entertaining and crazy character who has followers, lots of green life, and water which he tends to keep from other people, along with him using another resource known as gasoline, which is in a supposed tanker the character Furiosa is driving around in throughout the film; he was insane in the action sequences and there was just lots about this character that made him very entertaining to watch throughout the film. The cinematography is spectacular with-it having lots of wide shots of the cars driving on this desert wasteland read or people just walking through the wasteland going from place to place, and the camera work was great with lots of tracking shots, fast movements, and fitting close ups; the action sequences were fantastic with great practical and special effects, amazing stunts, and an intense long car chase that I was full invested in. Lastly, I will just say that though this film feels like a long car chase, there are scenes where we learn about the two lead characters and their motivations, which was nice to see, and it helped make the film more interesting; I will also add that how the villain lives in this world is interesting along with him having a story that is also interesting to know about.
The follow-up Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was a fun and fast paced action film with outstanding performances, amazing action sequences, great looking practical and special effects, cool stunts, beautiful cinematography, nice camera work, and exceedingly small subtle uses of CGI; this film does feel like a long car chase, but the entire chase was investing and thrilling, with there also being moments where you can catch your breath and learn a bit more about the characters and their motivations. I liked this film more than the other three films before this, though those films are not bad and I do like them, I liked this more mostly because this film was a fast-paced action film that blew me away while watching; this is more than a worthy follow-up to the previous three Mad Max films, fans of the franchise will love this movie and casual moviegoers will love this film, which is why I highly recommend watching this if you have seen the others and if you love fun action movies.
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