OUR MOVIE REVIEW:

The summer of 2015 was a very important tune for me. It was the summer I graduated high school, escaped an incredibly small Missouri town and had started college in Southern Illinois; however one very important film released the weekend I graduated high school and it seems to eclipse everything else from that summer in my memory. That film was Mad Max: Fury Road. I had first seen it while visiting the college campus I'd be studying at; it was orientation weekend and after my cousin and I saw the film, we had to haul our asses back to Missouri in an attempt to make it back in time before extended family came in for my graduation. 

This three hour drive was, of course, accompanied by incredibly loud heavy metal, screaming “WITNESS ME” out the window at farm cows, and the best cinematic electric buzz I've been chasing for nine years. I'd go to see Fury Road four times that summer, and I'd fawn over different sorts of details each time. However, even then with the film kicking off that summer, it's six oscar wins, and other incredible blockbusters releasing in the rest of the decade, it's hard to think of a single other tent-pole studio blockbuster from the 2010s that's as important and impactful as Fury Road.  

George Miller's fourth installment in his Max Max films opens strong with the introduction to Tom Hardy as Max, however, his journey is only ever so passive to the main event, which is the journey of iconic heroine, Imperator Furiosa. With oil smeared on her head, she drives fourth to free the five wives of Imortan Joe. Her trek across this mad, mad, wasteland is the backbone of the film, exploring a tragic character while also throwing everything her way. And. I. mean. Everything. Chrome, fire, blood, vehicles, war boys spreading on a double neck guitar; I haven't even started to scratch the surface of what kinds of things Furiosa faces in order to free these women. It's a powerful, quiet and introspective performance that's become iconic in the near decade since Fury Road’s release.

This is such a character driven film, especially for the action which is George Miller's wicked Rube Goldberg machine. Every character is driven in a path of redemption, and we see how every key character reacts in their own way and in the most dire of circumstances. It's a non stop film, cause it's gotta be just absolutely non stop. Because, if you stop, you're dead. And it's better to be mad, than dead.