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• The Sound and the Fury! — for Mad Max: Fury Road
  Written by lezard on 04.11.2019

  Fed up with the current trendy habit of series and numbers (Star Wars 5,6,7..32.../Spiderman, Ironman, Batman, Superman (did I forget one?)2,3,4 etc..) I expected nothing special from Mad Max 4. Just another sequel, before (why not?) a prequel.
  I was wrong. Mad Max is everything a blockbuster isn't: inventive, entertaining, visually rewarding, poetic and unexpected.
  It starts full speed and keeps accelerating. The plot is simple but not simplistic, the actors well cast and perfect. It is a road movie, a western, a kind of «Stagecoach goes to Hell!». The soundtrack is absolutely deafening and exciting. The different settings are worth a sight. The battle scenes look like fantastic ballets.
  To cut a long story short: I had never seen this before! George Miller has totally renewed his own creation.
  Moreover, as Hitchcock used to say:«The worse the bad guy, the better the movie.» ? But seriously, who's really afraid of Colossus or the Joker? except 6-year-olds? In Fury Road the villains are really scary. This kind of sadistic, insane fanatics who thrive on dying while killing people ring a bell which recently tolled too often.
  In the end, the lonesome cowboy rides away in the sunset. Hit the road once more, Max!

• Reboot of Mad Max's film — for Mad Max: Fury Road
  Written by chrissnow on 23.02.2018

  Reboot of Mad Max's film cycle with Mel Gibson, even if the facts told seem to be related to previous films (of which I have little memory, but I was not impressed).
  The film is set in a post-apocalyptic future; the first part is crazy enough, with crazy and out-of-line characters (Max himself is tormented by visions of the past in which he failed to save his family). Max is practically the blood supply of the Son of War Nux, and most of the first part is attached to the hood of the car.
  Bad sound, the speech of Immortan Joe to the people I struggled to follow him.
  The film improves in the second part with the escape of Furiosa with the young brides and the pursuit by the subjects of Immortan Joe.
  I struggled a bit to settle in the world of Mad Max, then slowly the film is a little grown reaching the sufficiency.
  I will have to review the original in order to express a more complete judgment.
  In the cast to quote Tom Hardy in the role of Max (quite taciturn), Charlize Theron in those of furious, the former model now launched in the cinema Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (is the pregnant bride) also seen in Transformers 3, Zoe Kravitz (the daughter of Lenny, another of the Mothers, seen in the saga of Divergent) and Nicholas Hoult who after the zombie of Warm Bodies plays another particular character (is the son of War, Nux).
  There is also Megan Gale, whose first appearance shows her how Mum did it.