Mad Max: Fury Road – What Do You Cling To When There’s Nothing Out There?

by jmgariepy · April 16, 2020

When I first watched Mad Max: Fury Road, I was afraid there would only be one action scene… because the action would never stop. I needn’t have worried. Mastermind George Miller knows how to flood a flick with a glut of action, stunts, and eye-popping visual candy, all baked into a world pounded by apocalypse after apocalypse. In a lesser director’s hands, this brutalism would be tedious and preachy. Under Miller’s guidance, it’s instead so filled with human energy that you can’t help but want to live in the worst of all worlds.

Chris Bowden and I live, we dine, and we live again on Sweedish Fish as we are awaited in Valhalla, all shiny and chrome. Will Immortan Joe look right at us and deem us worthy? Or will he scan the horizon, deeming us mediocre? Witness and find out! Oh, what a day. What a lovely day…