Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad. Max “Transfusion" Rockatansky is back in this the most awesome part of the series that we had to wait 30 years for. The whole movie is one big chase full of surprising, bewitching ideas, great filming - the result of really hard work. Miller relishes in details, fascinates with sheer scale and includes exposed hookers, big boobs, blood and faces ripped off in a movie that I saw twelve-year-old kids watching. Hardy is a cool Max, economical with words, but precise in expression, Charlize has a good role to play and her Furiosa is practically the leading role and even though it’s just another chapter in the saga, a lot depends on her. Any link to past episodes is minimal. Everything runs like clockwork. A well greased machine. it’s mine! (14/05/2015)

With characters defined by their looks, makeup and costumes, Fury Road is a super cool, non-stop action ride with amazing drive that pretends to have some sort of plot. The experienced George Miller has adapted the trends of contemporary blockbusters (a deafening audiovisual aspect that’s more important than the storyline) into a distinct vision of a post-apocalyptic world (with which perhaps someone else can find an emotional connection?), fitting it with dozens of clever details that are insignificant for the story, but turn the movie as a whole (together with the over-the top drive I’ve already mentioned) into a unique film entertainment product. The close-up of a head rising from the sand is the shot of the year. (22/05/2015)

High octane female emancipation milk. At first, the over the top effort to be over the top overwhelms the engine, but over time, a rather cute structure of carcinogenic ideas emerges. It can't be considered a model of feminism in Hollywood, but Uncle George burned out with his love of strict matriarchy in his old age, and by some miracle Charlize understood what was being asked of her. It's such a cruel mess that it finally finds its frantic path full of debris and crazy stunts. After the initial attempt not to fall asleep, there was a phase of smiles. Hell on wheels and mutated cabaret. Definitely not the best of the year, but definitely a quirky entertainment concept. At the same time, it is a demonstration that Hollywood is turning away from digital trends this year and is looking for its material roots. And Hollywood is also not afraid to show that the famous heroes live in a world of rubble and are actually a bit of a nuisance. (21/12/2015)

Thirty years is a long time, and George Miller has left the original Mad Max far behind. Not only is Mel Gibson surprisingly sorely missed, given that Tom Hardy's hesitant grumbling moments simply don't work at all, but Fury Road draws on the worst of the echoes of the original trilogy. Namely, the usual bizarreness, flatness of characters, and the fact that it's mostly just about one city and its fate. The fact that this time it's done in a grandiose way through to the last shot results in an audiovisual delight led by a breathtaking motorcycle raid, but without at least one truly interesting character, it's a massacre that simply doesn't mean anything to me outside the basic action layer. (27/05/2015)

I have not seen such a crazy movie in a while. It almost looks as if George Miller shot his craziest dream the way he’s seen it and lived through it. Nobody talked into it, nobody interfered with it and he just did it exactly the way he wanted. You can feel the madness, helplessness and despair of the post-apocalyptic world even two thousand light years far from you. When it comes to acting, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron are a sure bet. Nevertheless, some moments in the movie were so crazy that I was not able to process them and the only thing I was left with after those scenes was a bewildered face which still could not comprehend what it had seen. However, one thing is for certain. I have not seen such a well-filmed action, where digital effects fade in comparison to the real action ride, in a long time. If I even saw anything like that in this millennium. Hard to say. I think I didn’t. (20/05/2015)