Mad Max: Fury Road – The DVDfever Cinema Review

Mad Max: Fury Road is a film which just… well… happens in front of you. It’s very entertaining for the majority of the running time while you watch it, but it’s low on humour, which is a shame, and this is most likely because it’s low on dialogue. We’re also missing a really nice full-frontal grisly moment or three as we’ve had before. There’s a bit of that, but it disappears off the screen too quickly.

Oh, and to liven things up, there’s a blast of Verdi's Requiem late on, plus one vehicle stacked with drummers on the back and a strangely-unplugged electric guitar being played on the front by a wild-looking man whose instrument also doubles as an impromptu flamethrower.

However, it didn’t really need to be more than 90 minutes – like the first two approximately run for, and since it goes on further than that, it does drag at times.

And if you’re wondering whether to go and see it in 3D – don’t bother. It wasn’t shot in 3D, so all of those effects were added in post-production (one late effect being particularly blatant). I know with some 3D films, when you get perspective shots that show both something in the foreground and something in the background, you get both on display with the 3D effect in play, yet in 2D, the non-essential part is blurred out. I noticed that with a shot where Tom Hardy was in the foreground and Charlize Theron further back, and it made me ponder this for a moment. Then again, as this was filmed in 2D, I doubt that has been applied here as he can’t bring the whole image into perfect focus.

And why wasn’t filmed in 3D? Apparently, this was a ‘difficult shoot’. Well, boo hoo. Don’t expect me to pay extra for nothing. And that goes also for an IMAX presentation. None of it was filmed in IMAX so why is it showing on an IMAX screen? Just because it’s bigger? Well, bigger doesn’t always mean better.

Mad Max: Fury Road is available to pre-order on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and DVD, with a release date yet to be confirmed, and click on the poster for the full-size image.


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Everyone’s hard as nails, except for Nux (left) who is a scaredy cat.


Detailed specs:

Cert:
Running time: 120 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros
Year: 2015
Format: 2.35:1 (ARRIRAW (2.8K) and ProRes 4:2:2 (1080p/24))
Released: May 14th 2015
Rating: 7/10

Director: George Miller
Producers: George Miller, Doug Mitchell and P.J. Voeten
Screenplay: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris
Music: Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL

Cast:
Max Rockatansky: Tom Hardy
Imperator Furiosa: Charlize Theron
Nux: Nicholas Hoult
Immortan Joe: Hugh Keays-Byrne
Slit: Josh Helman
Rictus Erectus: Nathan Jones
Toast the Knowing: Zoë Kravitz
The Splendid Angharad: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Capable: Riley Keough
The Dag: Abbey Lee
Cheedo the Fragile: Courtney Eaton
The People Eater: John Howard
The Bullet Farmer: Richard Carter
The Doof Warrior: Iota
The Organic Mechanic: Angus Sampson
Miss Giddy: Jennifer Hagan
The Valkyrie: Megan Gale
Keeper of the Seeds: Melissa Jaffer
The Vuvalini: Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellermann, Christina Koch
The Ace: Jon Iles
Corpus Colossus: Quentin Kenihan
Glory the Child: Coco Jack Gillies
Morsov: Chris Patton
The Rock Rider Chief/The Winchman: Stephen Dunlevy
The Prime Imperator: Richard Norton
Imperators: Vincent Roxburgh and John Walton
Chanting War Boy/Red Flare Warrior: Ben Smith-Petersen
Blood ‘Shed’ War Boy: Russ McCarroll
War Rig War Boy: Judd Wild
Milking Mother: Elizabeth Cunico
Ripsaw Driver: Rob Jones
Ripsaw Imperator/The Breakman: Greg van Borssum
Polecat Lookout: Sebastian Dickins
Black Mask: Darren Mitchell
The Accusing Dead: Crusoe Kurddal and Shyan Tonga
The Wretched: Cass Cumerford and Albert Lee
War Pups: Riley Paton, Ripley Voeten, Macyn Van Borssum, Hunter Stratton Boland, Nathan Jenkins, Fletcher Gill, Whiley Toll
Voice: Lee Perry


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