If Fury Road has a moral, it's the same one screenwriting professors have been reiterating since chase movies starred Steve McQueen: Action is character. Director George Miller, plucked-from-retirement cinematographer John Seale, and editors Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel render its overwhelmingly analog derring-do in a balletic and fluid legato, rather than the thudding staccato of a younger, more loudmouthed car-chase franchise that lives its life a quarter mile at a time (and never, ever shuts up about it). It's the most visceral blockbuster since Gravity, and it reinvigorates the doomsday genre like no film since The Matrix.
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Its sequel, released in these United States as The Road Warrior, is the original trio's only essential entry.īut even that lo-fi, high-impact classic now looks like a mere sketch for the long-under-construction Mad Max: Fury Road, a kinetic, hallucinatory, boldly feminist chase flick that, with its vibrant color palette, harrowing stunt work and show-don't-tell style of yarn-spinning, leaves every Marvel movie and every Fast & Furious in its irradiated dust. Though an international hit, today it plays more like a scrappy curiosity than a great action picture, notable for introducing the world to 23-year-old Mel Gibson, whose personal dystopian hellscape was still decades off. The original Mad Max, from 1979, cost less than $1 million in 2015 money.
What's the half-life of a post-apocalyptic action film franchise? Potential ticket-buyers born the day the most recent Mad Max movie was released - summer 1985, one weekend after Back to the Future - could be on their second marriages by now.
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