I moved from liking this movie to loving it on a rewatch. The tone is just right: a party of slightly sardonic friends constantly failing forwards through a world of over the top set pieces and self-serious heroes and villains. They often undercut the tension with humor, but when the real dramatic moments come, everyone is sincere. This PERFECTLY captures the essence of playing a game of D&D with your friends.
This film also has just the right amount of…
The most unique, creative, and downright hilarious film I've seen in years. It felt like watching Looney Toons and Tom and Jerry as a child. The story even managed to fit in a lovely little character arc despite the characters only saying five or so words throughout. I love this film and cannot recommend it enough.
A deeply unserious movie.
A Walmart $5 DVD bin in 2005 kind of movie.
A straight to Netflix in 2025 kind of movie. Daytime TV crime procedural acting.
Too many piss references type of writing.
Straight up goofy editing.
Straight up goofy moose in the first scene was the canary in the coal mine right from the start.
The kind of movie where professionals don’t think to check the obvious right away because we need to hold on to that…
George Miller returns with another high octane masterwork of action cinematography and choreography. Tragically though, all the grandiose, mythological spectacle of this film leaves a bittersweet taste in my mouth. The thematic peach has fallen far from the tree of Fury Road.
I've had a hunger to return to the madcap, operatic, kamakrazee world of Mad Max: Fury Road ever since its cinematic intensity and initially-indecipherable madness imprinted themselves on my senses in 2015. Furiosa blazes across the big screen…
