Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director; George Miller, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.
Won: Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.
Mad Max: Fury Road is everything the Fast and Furious franchise wishes it could be, an insane crazy action packed film with amazing visuals and a very sophisticated story. George Miller directs the film and really manages to bring this bizarre post apocalyptic world to life incredibly well. the film is charged by it's high voltage action that really helps to elevate the film throughout with some incredible chase action sequences filled with insane stunts. The cinematography is gorgeous and seamless from beginning to end and the visual effects are a delight. Miller also wrote the film and really managed to do a phenomenal job of bringing the more sophisticated themes to the surface of this film. The performances from the ensemble in this film are top notch, although there are a few weak links. Charlize Theron makes for an awesome female lead in the role of Furiousa as one of the best action heroines in film while maintaining a sense of emotional gravitas that really adds to the character. Tom Hardy portrays the character of Max and his performance was a little bland in my opinion as his character grunts quite a bit which I found to be so strange and a bit bothersome, otherwise I'd say Hardy did a great job but was really outshone by his costars. Nicholas Hoult was incredible onscreen with a very strange character, obsessed with the film's villain but still manages to provide a captivating performance with an interesting character arc for him that comes full circle at the end of the film. Now there are a group of women who are the villain's “breeders” portrayed by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Megan Gale, and Abbey Lee respectively. Each do a serviceable job in their roles but aren't ever really given too much to do aside from function as a plot device to propel the chase sequence into a full two hour film. The antagonist, Immortan Joe, was portrayed by Hugh Keays-Byrne and was hard to understand at times because of his character's mask (similar to costar Hardy's performance as Bane in the The Dark Knight Rises) and felt like a very static boring villain who never quite felt menacing or all that powerful but rather very selfish. I honestly had no plans to watch this film before it was released since it looked very strange and out there for me as a film and trust me it's pretty weird. I've heard tremendous buzz about Mad Max: Fury Road since it opened in theaters with critics essentially praising it as one of one of the best films ever made and I have to respectfully disagree. I do think that Mad Max: Fury Road is a great film but I don't think I'll feel compelled to watch it multiple times, which is a characteristic I feel is very crucial to a film. I would recommend it for those who at least have some relative interest in the film. For those who think the film looks too weird, I can only agree that it is indeed strange but suggest you at least attempt to watch it and if you can't make it past the first thirty minutes without being weirded out then it's not quite worth your time.
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